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Subject:Re: Seeking Input On CM-Idiot Issue From:Elna Tymes <etymes -at- LTS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:39:20 -0800
Marybeth -
Probably the easiest way to bypass this guy is to set up a documentation
version control page on your company's intranet, and give one person the
responsibility for keeping it updated. You can have this person hand the
imbecile floppies of the files, and even hard copy if he likes, but when you're
putting .pdf versions up on an intranet as often as they get changed, he'll
soon understand that he has other, more important things to do.
That, however, won't solve the real problem, which has more to do with the guy
not knowing anything about the PC environment in which the company is
operating. Check with development people in engineering and see what they've
been doing to check in and out bug fixes. That ought to give you some ideas
about where to proceed.
