Re: Would you like a fries with that style guide, redux

[barry batorsky <bbatorsk -at- nj -dot- devry -dot- edu>]

At 11:33 AM 4/3/01 -0700, you wrote:
>
>It isn't the procedure, its the flaming moron behind the keyboard who doesn't
>know squat-one about the product he/she id documenting. Blame the procedures
>(or lack thereof) all you want. At the end of the day, you're readers could
>care less that you did or did not use an internationally recognized
methodology
>or planning system to get the document done. 
>Andrew Plato 

Instead of all this grounds-shifting, straw-man argumentation (the
documentation process after all is not the same as the writing process, and
I should know, I teach both),  try this old formula for describing the
results of a plan (read: process or procedure):

Q(p/d) x (E+C)=R 

The Quality of a plan or decision multiplied by the Effort and Competence
to implement it determines the Results.

A poor plan with good effort and/or competence can produce the same results
as a good plan with poor effort and/or competence.

Do the math.  It may help avoid these ground-shifting, straw-man arguments
that circulate endlessly.

Deja vu, again,
Barry

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