[BNM] (ot) BBC redesign competition

[Tom Hume]

Well, my (one) experience of working with them was exactly the  
opposite. Very little paperwork (beyond the contract - which wasn't  
particularly difficult to agree on), no red tape. We just got on with  
it...

On 28 Apr 2006, at 09:50, Tom Dussek wrote:

>> In my experience they are a bit hobbled by being beholden to the
>> license fee - and therefore having to be very careful of not doing
>> things which might be seen to compete with commercial interests in
>> the UK using taxpayers money. Lots of people argue that they
>> frequently overstep the mark in this respect of course...
>
> In my experience, they are stunted by self-confessed idiocy. I did  
> a fairly
> large project for them that generated enough paperwork to fill a  
> small van,
> none of which was important in the slightest - no accounts, no  
> timesheets,
> no technical info, no print-outs of essential email, no copies of  
> binding
> agreements, no spec's - just endless iterations of scripts. This was
> delivered to a warehouse where "it will never be looked at, but we  
> need to
> have it." They are never content with any form of progress when  
> there is a
> fuss and bother to be had instead.
>
> And does anyone remember Media Ark? A state-sponsored competitor  
> for iTV
> contracts. Oh, how we loved the BBC...... w*nkers.....

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