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> I have just finished writing a manual which is quite good.
> ...
> Now that I am all ready to go to press, the approval board (my boss) has
come up
with a creative idea: The entire R&D and QA staff has to read the entire
book.
> ...
> Can anybody give me some good arguments why this shouldn't happen.
Where are the users in the process ? Shouldn't *they*, rather than "the
entire R&D and QA staff", review the product ?
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Frederic Wronecki
France Telecom, Paris, France
mailto : frederic -dot- wronecki -at- francetelecom -dot- fr
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