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Subject:RE: The last minute crunch From:Kate Robinson <KRobinson -at- seattle -dot- telecomsys -dot- com> To:'Samuel Choy' <schoy -at- us -dot- ibm -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:39:33 -0700
I have two words for you: content freeze.
Now, good luck getting your SMEs and PMs to remember those words at ship
time, no matter how many times they amiably nodded their heads back in the
planning stages.
Other than that, I always find pre-ship checklists useful.
Kate Robinson
TechComm Editor
TCS/TeleCommunication Systems Inc.