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What requirements should I put in a job description
specifically for documenting software?
Tony Markatos responds:
A focus on understanding the essential end user tasks that the system must
perform and how all those tasks interrelate. Yourdon says it, and my
experience confirms it: "Ninty eight percent (98%) of the required work in
any software documentation effort".
Tony Markatos
(tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com)
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