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Subject:RE: Engineering specs: The way it spozed to be? From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:50:51 -0400
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> From: stevefjong
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:44 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Engineering specs: The way it spozed to be?
>
> 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.)
>
It is *never* OK to make an engineering change without writing down in
an internal document what's been done.
Or as I like to put it: "You look pretty busy. Could I take a few notes
on that, just so I can keep track of these improvements?"
-- Dan Goldstein
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