ABSTRACT
Finally, the project was coming together! Iris Daniels and her team had just agreed to create a prototype and present it to the seven-member consortium of software users. The prototype would show both the instructional and technical approaches of the web-based training software that they wanted to see developed. Iris was hopeful that the prototype would be positively received by all of the consortium members and would enable development to proceed. Iris had worked for Jim Huggins on many projects with their client, Hill Industries, and knew the importance of prototyping to communicate design, instructional approach, or feasibility. But getting to this prototype had taken longer than anyone had expected. This was Iris’s first time working with an international team and, in addition to having to reach consensus regarding the prototype, she had to learn the corporate cultures of the organizations that made up the consortium.
