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Re: How to Convince Development Dept to Provide External and Internal Design Specs?
Subject:Re: How to Convince Development Dept to Provide External and Internal Design Specs? From:"Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Steve Phillips" <sm -dot- phillips -at- verizon -dot- net> Date:Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:47:40 -0500
Don't limit the audience to Tech Pubs and offer to help write them.
On 3/23/06, Steve Phillips <sm -dot- phillips -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to convince an immature and resource-constrained development department of the importance of providing the Tech Pubs dept. with internal/external design specifications for new product development?
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Bill Swallow
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Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter http://techcommdood.blogspot.com
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