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Subject:RE: Ideas in Motion From:"Anthony Markatos" <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:writstar -at- wi -dot- net, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:09:39 PST
Mike Starr said:
As I said in my previous post, I can dazzle the bosses and the users with
one hand tied behind my back. Why?? They don't know enough about what
constitutes good documentation to be dissatisfied with substandard
documentation.
Tony Markatos responds:
Gee whiz Mike, remember yesterday when you said:
"There are some of us out here who have developed enough documentation
that we can just do it without formal project plans, theory, style guide or
metrics. That's the value of experience.....Those of us with sufficient
experience already know what needs to be done and we just go ahead and do
it."
Sounds to me like you intuitively know how to how to create substandard
documentation. No planning, ya just do it!
Tony Markatos
(tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com)
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