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Subject:Re: What if the marketing head... From:Iggy <iggy_1996dp -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 31 Oct 2001 06:05:39 -0800 (PST)
Have you genuinely asked the head of marketing
non-pointed questions about this schema and its
appropriateness to certain types of information
deliverables?
--- Nancy Mignone <n_mignone -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Say I am a technical writer for a (now) small
> company. I get a dictum from
> the head of marketing which reads (very prettily):
>
> Activity Diagem
> Color Coding
>
> This sheet of paper then goes on to tell the company
> what colors to use for
> Rules, Data, References, Processes, Miscellaneous,
> External References (in
> R,G,B values with example of color).
>
> So, I'm thinking, well, our product has rules, data,
> processes...
> What does this mean? Whenever I write an example of
> a rule the software
> executes, I write it in a particular shade of red?
> Are there, or could there be, any standards out
> there about how to document
> Processes? Rules? Data?
> We automate processes by using rules for data.
> That's us.
> No, I'm not asking me to send me your style guides
> and so on and so forth.
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