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Esther Schindler gives us the term “flowerbox indicator”

Esther Schindler recently posted about what can be called “flowerbox indicators” to the Extreme Programming Yahoo! Group:

In a Bank of America ad about their investments in crappy neighborhoods (they didn’t phrase it that way), the speaker said they knew they’d succeeded, “when the flowerboxes begin showing up on front porches.” Teams have the same sort of indirect indications, too, for good or ill.

The notion of indirect indicators and tell-tale signs of a team or project’s direction are nothing new. What I really like is the catchy name, “flowerbox indicator.” Thanks, Esther.

This entry was posted by Dossy Shiobara on Monday, May 2nd, 2005 at 5:40 pm and is filed under Geeking out. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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