Re: How long does it take to review a document?

[Gurudutt Kamath <guruk -at- GIASBM01 -dot- VSNL -dot- NET -dot- IN>]

Hello Pete and all!

It is amazing how great minds think alike ;}.  As a freelance technical
writer, I have maintained that all reviews be within a period of 7 days.
As companies want a fast turnaround, I state that the review period will
be of 3 days, with a maximum of 7 days. As the dates for review are
provided, people can schedule their work.

In reality, however, 7 days turn to 7 weeks and 7 months!

But with online reviews -- specially within a company---I think 7 days
should be more than enough.

Of course, everyone on this list knows the neat review acceptance trick.
If no review comments are forthcoming by the said date, it is presumed
that the document is accepted.  As I said earlier, great minds....

With greetings from India!

Guru

guruk -at- giasbm01 -dot- vsnl -dot- net -dot- in
http://members.tripod.com/~Kamath

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Pete Kloppenburg wrote:
> Our review process will make use of Lotus Notes and PDF.  I'll set up a
> review, the various folks will get notified that they can look at the
> thing, and then they can make comments directly into Notes, which others
> can read as well.  The idea is that everybody reviews concurrently.  After
> the deadline has passed, silence implies consent.  I figure that a week is
> the minimum review period, so as to allow people to fit a review into their
> schedules.

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