RE: Anyone using Wiki for collaboration?

Subject: RE: Anyone using Wiki for collaboration?
From: "Nuckols, Carl" <Carl -dot- Nuckols -at- na -dot- biomerieux -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:54:16 -0400


On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:01 AM, Megan Golding wrote:

>To be honest, though, the main audience for _using_ our Wiki is technical.
>They'll take to the Wiki like ducks to water.

There was never a truer statement made. I gather requirements and write
the
user manuals in an FDA regulated software development environment, so we
need documentation that is a little more 'official' than Wiki. Wiki has,
however, been very effective just for the reason you mentioned.

It has proven to be invaluable for gathering and refining requirements from
marketing, sales, tech service, etc. as we go along and the learning curve
has been quite short. Perhaps more importantly, by having the requirements
on Wiki, it is much easier to get the software developers to look at them
early and point out anything that is impossible/impractical. I can then go
back to the 'users' and find other solutions before coding begins.

>My first reaction to said co-worker was, "Hey, that's not where this
information goes.
>You should have said it this way. You should have linked from _here_."

Like you I cringed at first, but I now love Wiki. Another nice feature to
note is the fact that Wiki automatically tracks changes. It does not say
who made the change, which may be a drawback for some, but I can come in
every morning and in the span of 15 minutes know what was added/changed the
day before.

BTW the link to Cunningham's original Wiki is http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki.

-Carl


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