Re: Contractors: Local jobs, out of town recruiters?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Kevin wrote: 

> a) planned and allowed enough time in their schedule that 
>  real working hardware and software would exist before 
>  a reasonable documentation schedule began and 

Is this supposed to be desirable? Or rational? IMHO, if a company waits
until it has "real working hardware and software" before even _starting_
a "reasonable documentation schedule," it won't be in business very long
because either its time-to-market or its documentation will suck. More
than likely, both. 

Given such a sorry lack of ability to plan, coordinate, and manage
multiple tasks in parallel, probably the product will suck, too. 

Richard

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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com
303-223-5111
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rgcombs -at- gmail -dot- com 
303-777-0436
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