RE: Managing the multitudes
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From: KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com
[mailto:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 4:43 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Managing the multitudes
So far (after the first day), responses are few,
suggesting that most of you don't organize your
various bits of information for orderly retrieval?
Or that most of you don't GET info except what you
explicitly go out, hunt down, and kill for yourselves,
so it doesn't *need* organizing?
Otherwise, the suggestions are paper-based (enhanced
by flag-stickies and margin notes) or SQL-based
(PHP for client... which made me think of Python...).
How about the rest of you? Don't be shy!
Ok,
Having thrown down the gauntlet so forcefully, I can't ignore it any longer.
Me need info. Me hunt info. Me kill info. Good info.
Mostly it is the usual documentation by discovery. I recently came to my current company, and it is no different. The documents that the have are disjointed, not very informative, but the BAs are very eager to help. The software is fairly transparent, though I spent three months slogging through the Java components to find out how it worked.
The company is actually implementing a Relational Rose system into which all the requirements, business, functions, and technical support are supposed to reside. That should make it much easier to hunt and kill the info.
Of course, Rose is not a system that is implemented casually by an independent user. So it may not be applicable to you.
Scott
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