Enabling Collaborative Design-and-Decision Discussions, Online
http://blogs.sun.com/coolstuff/entry/enabling_collaborative_design_and_decision

Armstrong, Eric
Sun Microsystems
2008

Abstract:

What if it were possible to manage the tendency of discussions to branch ad infinitum? What if it were possible to use those discussions to surface the important issues, identify the alternatives, make reasonable choices and, above all, provide a readable history of discussion that made it easy for someone coming along later to understand the basic architecture and find out why things are the way the are? There is an interesting coalition of technologies that could provide those very benefits.