Documentation phase in software-development life cycle? (take II)

["Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>]

After responding to Vlad Dracul's original question, a second thought
occurred to me. Given that "the company follows a three-month release
cycle", you should have an even easier task convincing them to freeze the
interface quickly: "Guys, even if we can improve the interface now, that's
just delaying the current release. Worst-case scenario is that if we need to
tweak the interface, we can do it every 3 months, in time for the next
release. So let's agree on a quick freeze during each release cycle, with a
total of four rounds of updating the interface per year (i.e., every 3
months). That'll make everyone's life easier, and will give us time to
iteratively improve the interface as we go!"

--Geoff Hart, geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
(try ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca if you get no response)
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
580 boul. St-Jean
Pointe-Claire, Que., H9R 3J9 Canada 

"Wisdom is one of the few things that look bigger the further away it
is."--Terry Pratchett

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