RE: Engineering specs: The way it spozed to be?

[stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net]

From: "sbuckley" <sbuckley -at- onlinewriter -dot- com>:
> It sounds like what the VP is really asking for is a tracking mechanism.  If
> the spec process is already set, a good mechanism is bug tacking in programs
> like Bugzilla, Raid, and TestTrack. As others have mentioned, having a
> specific field for UI changes is great, but only if you can get people to
> remember to use it (and I found that to be difficult with some groups).

From: Dan Goldstein:
> Very broadly, I'd distinguish between revising a document (updating it
> to reflect reality) and releasing a document (making it an Official
> Thing -- "freezing" it).

To clarify our situation, I think my VP is asking when it's OK for an engineer to make a change without writing down in an internal document what's been done. (I get the sense that engineers change whatever they feel like changing whenever they feel like changing it, but I could be wrong.)

-- Steve
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