maturity

["Alex Silbajoris" <alsilba -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

I recently wrote up my "self-evaluation" for another year, and for the third 
time, I'm telling the admins that we need en established review process.  As 
it is now, I'm sending out drafts like bullets into fog.  The problem is 
that no one sees any worth in a review process; as with documentation in 
general, it's pushed down to a low priority when time allotment is 
considered.

I don't want an elaborate model like the Hackos-based approach one of my 
writing managers lived by in one of my previous jobs.  And I don't want the 
caustic distrustful power-mad editorial control of one manager I had on a 
contracting stint.  (Some of her policy memos were so abrasive that I've 
saved them just for their sheer unpleasantness.)

I would simply like a reliable process of consideration of materials before 
they go out to their intended audiences.  To me, that would indicate a step 
toward maturity for this company.  As it is now, they would probably guess 
that "hackos" is the Greek word for "to cut weeds."

- A


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