On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:57:56PM -0500, Gray, Eric wrote:
Usually, before you can actually seek consensus, you must have an
essentially "binary" choice. It is hard enough to reach consensus
on simple choices without turning up the process noise by having a
plethora of possible choices.
I disagree here. The process of seeking consensus means you have to
sort *through* the plethora of possible choices, and see which ones
meets the needs and requirements of the stakeholder. If you have a
binary choice, all you can really do is force a vote. So hopefully by
the time that you come up to your last two choices, they hopefully
aren't "binary" in the sense of 0 and 1 being diametric opposites.
Hopefully the two or three final choices are pretty closely except for
a few minor details (and then we end up spending huge amount of time
arguing over those tiny details :-)
- Ted
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