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Subject:Re Karen's Request for How Many Steps? From:David Dubin <David_Dubin -at- NOTES -dot- PW -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 10 Jun 1994 05:09:14 PDT
Karen,
We use a standard that has been around for, what I believe, a long while. It
is called the rule of sevens. Limit any topic to seven steps plus or minus
two. More steps than nine, and it is time you considered decomposing the
topic/steps into smaller units.
Hope this helps.
David Dubin -at- notes -dot- pw -dot- com
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