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Subject:lead time? what lead time From:"Cayenne Woods" <cwoods -at- purplevoice -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:27:40 +0000
(hope this isn't a repeat - Lotus mail!!£"$%^)
On this project I've worked with zero specs - as have the developers. Until
early last week, people were still adding/changing/designing the software, with
no prior plan. And the release is next week, with considerable changes still
happening last week. Hopefully this won't happen again, but at least I've
figured out that I'm working semi-miracles, and it shouldn't be this way. I've
got two main Help files and two small ones, and a 50-page admin guide that have
had to be rewritten in two weeks, on my own. We're small, and building for
existing and potential customers rather than releasing to the public at the
moment, but this is still quite a lot.
Also, after asking for feedback since early November and not getting even a
reply, a new project manager has kicked everyone into gear to review the docs.
However, they received absolutely no guidelines on what I'd like to hear, and
now have sent _lots_ of feedback. I should get over the opinions on colors,
fonts, capitalisation, etc, but it's irritating. The big problem is there's way
too much detail for this stage - and even though I'd ignore half the
"suggestions" and many are simply wrong, it's a big chunk of both their and my
time that is not best-used at this point.
How do people deal with setting some parameters for different levels of docs
review, and how can I put this semi-delicately??
thanks for suggestions!
Cayenne
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