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Re: How to fend off a tech writer

Subject: Re: How to fend off a tech writer
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 07:44:42 -0400


One of our developers told me about a place he worked where the developers had cards, red on one side, green on the other, that they posted on the outside of their cubes.

I did a little writing/designing with the concept (the green side has white type dropped out of it saying "Feel free to knock"; the red side says "Not right now, please). I printed them up and put them in a Take One pocket on the outside of my cube. Word got around, and developers stopped by to pick them up. So how many birds did I kill with that stone? ;-)

puffwriter -at- darksleep -dot- com wrote:



This is, indeed, true. As a developer, I'm really aware of this;
it's extremely hard to manage a project and develop at the same time,
because project management is so interrupt-driven and development is
so flow-driven.

There's even an etiquette built around this:
[snip]




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