[HN Gopher] Charrette
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       Charrette
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2021-09-16 08:43 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | officialchicken wrote:
       | Native English speaker. Used a lot in architecture (buildings)
       | and design competitions - the horse cart is where you would
       | finish your illustrations working to the last minute on the way
       | to final presentation.
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       | Edit: Here's a picture
       | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charrette,_%C3%89col...
        
         | bch wrote:
         | I'm used to it in public engagements too, with respect to civic
         | planning. It features in the story/movie The Best of
         | Enemies[0], set in contentious public policy hearings. Worth
         | watching.
         | 
         | [0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4807408/
        
       | dopidopHN wrote:
       | Oh you says that in English too? Good to know. It's pretty widely
       | used in software, video editing and those jobs with version to
       | deliver at fixed and seemingly arbitrary dates ...
        
         | TacticalCoder wrote:
         | I'll ask (french speaking) friends who owns a big 3D studio
         | but... Native french speaker here and I never ever heard it
         | used except to mean "a little cart" (totally unrelated to
         | software / video editing).
         | 
         | > It's pretty widely used in software
         | 
         | Definitely not.
         | 
         | > video editing
         | 
         | I take your word on it
         | 
         | > and those jobs with version to deliver at fixed and seemingly
         | arbitrary dates
         | 
         | Definitely not.
        
           | nbernard wrote:
           | In french, "je suis charrette" can be slang for "I am
           | overloaded (with work)", in the same way as "I am on
           | charrette" that the article mentions.
        
         | silisili wrote:
         | American. Never heard it before the movie 'Best of Enemies.'
         | Neat idea.
        
         | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
         | Native English speaker. Never heard the word before now.
        
           | dopidopHN wrote:
           | That make more sense. I work in the US since a while and
           | never heard it here.
           | 
           | You guys have a lot of unused French words in your corpus. I
           | guess that's yet another.
           | 
           | It's even a verb in French.
           | 
           | "No can't hang out. I'm charrette until next week."
           | 
           | "Yeah I'm somewhat charette lately, I would not take more
           | tickets"
        
           | SECProto wrote:
           | I've definitely heard it used, but only in the urban planning
           | & public consultation context
        
           | dkarl wrote:
           | Same, USian, never heard it in software. I only know the word
           | because I attended a public charrette for proposed zoning
           | changes in my city. My wife (she told me when I asked about
           | the word) did design charrettes in graduate school, which in
           | school are a kind of brutal peer critique of projects at the
           | end of the term, rather than an interactive presentation and
           | gathering of feedback from stakeholders as originally
           | envisioned.
           | 
           | The public charrette I attended for zoning changes was pretty
           | fascinating. The most interesting part was that about twenty
           | roughly block-sized pieces of the city were chosen as case
           | studies, and for each block, an entire wall was dedicated to
           | visualizing the current state of each block along with
           | implications of the proposed change and other options, and a
           | there was a person at each wall available to walk you through
           | it and answer questions. (A lot of the members of the public
           | who attended were developers who were asking extremely
           | specific and wonky hypotheticals, so this was not an easy
           | job.) I had no idea what to expect, and I was flabbergasted
           | at the effort and professionalism that went into it.
        
           | webwielder2 wrote:
           | Me neither. I might say "design sprint" to refer to the same
           | thing.
        
             | dwmbt wrote:
             | I thought the word seemed a bit familiar, so I read the
             | wiki article and noticed the use of the word at certain
             | Universities and it clicked. I took a User Experience
             | course at uni and remembered that the sprint for our last
             | week was dubbed Charrette! Since, I haven't heard the word
             | used again. I suppose "Design Sprint" aligns better with
             | the Agile spirit.
        
               | dopidopHN wrote:
               | Oh so by itself it does not imply a death March of work
               | until the sprint is over?
               | 
               | It's just a fancy name for the sprint?
        
               | slim wrote:
               | It's specifically used for "working till the last second
               | of a deadline" whether you succeed or not
        
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