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Re: How to Convince Development Dept to Provide External and Internal Design Specs?
Subject:Re: How to Convince Development Dept to Provide External and Internal Design Specs? From:"Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:50:30 -0500
What, you don't head out on a cross-country trip with 20 of your
friends, all in different cars, all without maps???
LOL!
Very true. The specs are there not to educate techpubs, but to give
everyone a look at what they intend to do before they do it, this way
features can actually be thought about and planned before
implementation.
On 3/23/06, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> If your developer group doesn't create design specs for their
> new products, your company has much larger problems
> than its user docs.
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Bill Swallow
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