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Subject:RE: Average Hours Worked From:"Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:19:01 -0400
I can measure and demonstrate at least a 40-hour savings per-project and
an improvement in the accuracy of documentation using single sourcing,
and I can better meet the needs of software design that continues to
change up until the ship date. These things I can measure and have done,
this is not theory.
I'd say, in many cases, if you are not single sourcing you are wasting
time and your employer's money; imagine that, Andrew Plato, fondling
fonts!
In fact, when I refer to lots of overtime, I am talking about the task
of getting _content_ documented, not setting up single sourcing, messing
with fonts, or playing with templates. (And, remember, single sourcing
only has to be set up once, it's not something you'd adjust on every
project.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Plato [mailto:gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:45 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Cc: Sean Brierley
Subject: Re: Average Hours Worked
"Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com> wrote ...
>Are you kidding? Single sourcing saves, at a minimum, 40 hours of work
>per project. Single sourcing lets you jam out projects more quickly and
>accuratly than multi-sourcing. Single sourcing is quite different than
>font fondling, single sourcing relies on structured content, something
I
>expected you to appreciate. You are missing the boat big-time on that.
A single sourcing system must be set-up, managed, maintained, and
administrated.
All of which requires time. While the unit time of a given project may
decrease,
your overall time working may increase in the amount of time it takes to
setup
and build a working system.
Clearly if an employee can find a way to do their job better and reduce
the
amount of REAL time it takes to do their work, that is always a good
thing. But
the employee must remember that just because something holds the promise
of time
savings, doesn't mean it actually will save time or increase quality.
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