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Subject:RE: Who dreams up these things? From:bbatorsk -at- admin -dot- nj -dot- devry -dot- edu To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:27:04 -0400
Pierre,
And standardizing and measuring processes are "sufficient" but not
"necessary". I think JoAnne Hackos says something to that effect in her
text. We don't need a sledgehammer to drive a tack although it is
"sufficient" for the job if skillfully handled. But, if it ain't broke,
don't fix it. It's only when your "non-process" doesn't work that you may
need to analyze and fix it, and if you have ten people in on the production,
forewarned is forearmed.
Read an interesting statement today: "The larger the island of knowledge,
the longer the shoreline of wonder." (Sockman, I think, was the name of the
author)
Barry
>At 04:27 PM 9/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
> To summarize this thread,
>
> "Processes are necessary but no sufficient."
>
> Thank you.
>
> Pierre Roberge
> French Technical writer
> Famic Technologies 2000 inc.
