Re: I've been wrong all along...more pictures less words

["Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

And how does one go about understanding and documenting the "As-Is"
for something that is being developed from the ground up, which is the
situation many of us work in?  The only "as-is" are the requirements docs
(market oriented) and the specification docs (engineering oriented).

-Fred Ridder


>From: Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>
>To: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, Daniel Ng 
><kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>Subject: Re: I've been wrong all along...more pictures less words
>Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Oppss, sorry I missed this one.
>
>John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
>   How can you propose that they right way is to develop a system with 
>nothing in writing, then once you have "something", you create the 
>specifications on what it should be.
>
>   Richard Lewis:
>
>   How can you write about or develope the system without knowing the 
>As-Is?   Understanding the As-Is is the first thing to be done.   That 
>understanding drives requirements discovery and development.

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