Clear The Fog

If you are in it you can't see where you are heading. But you have to move forward. So you do something to find out what lies ahead. Could be a SpikeSolution, a prototype, and increment, depending on your knowledge and bravery.

A project management pattern written up in AlistairCockburn's ever-so-imminent Surviving OO Projects book, and excerpted on his web page http://members.aol.com/acockburn/riskcata/riskbook.htm as well as Jim Coplien's Organizational Patterns page, http://www.bell-labs.com/cgi-user/OrgPatterns/OrgPatterns?ClearTheFog

--- AlistairCockburn