They call me "the Hammer"

So at this evening's 370 meeting, Stuart came out and said he didn't get any code done. Maybe when he said, "It'll be done by the end of the weekend," he meant some other weekend. Regardless, he was taken off the profile-creation part of the project. Since we each were assigned one part of the project, this resulted in Stuart working on zero parts of the project.

The question was posed: What part can he work on? During the ensuing uncomfortable silence, I looked at the other team members and saw they were looking anywhere but at Stuart, so I stepped up and said, "You didn't contribute any code. It would be inappropriate for you to work on diagrams because you still don't show any understanding of the system. Also, you don't have any 'ownership' of it -- it would be unfair for you to work on the diagrams that relate to code that someone else is working on. And I don't trust you to edit the manual; besides, that's been my job since milestone 1. So there's really nothing for you to do."

We spent another ten minutes discussing the implications of non-participation in the final milestone. We talked around it, but I think there was a tacit understanding that Stuart will get a free ride on the group mark and will probably end up savaged on the individual evaluation. Even if he gets zeroes on the individual marks for the project, he could still get an 80 in the class. Way to coast, brother!