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I think there's a difference between an organization where the processAgree....the company I described did have a process, which included development meetings, an excellent QA process and sign off sheets. The difficulty most previous TWs had was the speed in which engineering changes were implemented, which was why the user guides were marginally accurate for the newer product lines. Because of the regular meetings (department level and company wide) and the low turnover of employees, what looked like chaos to newcomers was actually a well-oiled machine.
is geared toward being able to adapt to rapidly changing requirements
from outside and one where there is no process inside just because
everyone does things their own way and identical operations are
being performed with radically different methods and tools from
person to person to person. In the former, having common processes
standardized can free up thinking and doing time to tackle the unplanned
ones; in the latter, nobody knows what anyone else is doing or how they're
doing it at any given time, and if someone gets sick or ticked off enough
to walk off the job whoever has to pick up the pieces is in for a world of
hurt.
Al
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Re: Techwr-l Flashback: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: Techwr-l Flashback: From: Al Geist
Re: Techwr-l Flashback: From: Gene Kim-Eng
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