RE: It shouldn't be that hard to write good doc, should it?

["Gordon Graham" <gordon -at- gordonandgordon -dot- com>]

I've answered this question before with these four factors... which run
quite parallel to yours...

1. Enough budget
2. Enough time
3. Enough expertise
4. Enough management support

My list divides "brains" into the skills of the practitioners and the
support of the managers. I don't think that's too many words to answer this
time-honoured question, do you?

Notice that it doesn't take "oodles" of any item, just enough to do a
good-enough job. Which is unfortunately seldom enough the case.


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> -----Original Message-----
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> Writer
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: It shouldn't be that hard to write good doc, should it?
>
>
>
> > It takes:
> >
> > 1. financial commitment from a company,
> > 2. allotment of sufficient time for the tasks, and
> > 3. someone who can translate technical concepts.
>
> Too wordy...
>
> It takes:
>
> 1. cash
> 2. time
> 3. brains
>
> ;)
>
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