I've been thinking about cake-baking as a metaphor for the process of report writing. I'm convinced that the process looks fundamentally different from my point of view than it does from the client's.
To read the text that accompanies this picture, you need to bounce over to the new MRIA blog, where you'lI see the full article, called Magic, sausage making, and the baking of insight cakes: or, why I hate providing draft reports