Practice question · Multiple choice
A student's collaboration with a composer fails on installation day because the sound file will not play on the gallery's system and the projector mount does not fit the wall. Why is that a predictable failure rather than bad luck?
Hints
- Ask which part of the project each person practised.
- Both failures happened where one person's output met another's input.
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A. Both are handovers between contributions, and handovers are the part nobody rehearses
Why
Each collaborator rehearsed their own contribution and neither rehearsed the point where the two meet, which is exactly where both failures occurred. The fix is to test the handovers early on the actual equipment. Nothing here is about quality, and a solo project with the same two interfaces would fail identically.
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