I’m a mentor for a class at U of T this semester where a group of students are trying to crack the ‘Flash in Selenium’ nut. They are at the point where they are having planning / status meetings and I had to be downtown anyways so attended this week’s.

The first task they had to do was to individually produce the Elevator Pitch for their project. They had 3 minutes to write the pitch and then they had to read them out loud. The discrepancies, and there were some are signs of divergences within the team. These divergences are warning signs that need to be paid attention to.

Immediately.

I advocate elevator pitches for individuals and their careers but had not seen them used in a project beyond the initial kick-off until now. I think this has officially been added to my retrospective repertoire.