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Basically, I am a salesman - a professional solicitor of information. I ask, and ask, and ask. I have even developed a contact management system to keep track of all my outstanding "asks" (the people are all over the country). I have gone through a dozen referrals to finally get an answer. And that, in a nutshell, is what nobody else wants to do - alot of asking.
Richard Lewis
Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
I would consider all those other things you're doing to be
"productive." They need to be done in order to "produce"
the documentation and there's nobody else doing it, is
there?
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Richard Lewis"
> Only about 20% of my time per week is productive - that includes analysis (i.e., learning). Where does the rest of the time go?
> In my current assignment, I am driving enterprise-wide integration efforts (i.e., I am doing a bunch of essential data flow
> diagrams). I have to talk with a large number of analysts, managers, etc to tie their automation efforts together. (Their
> documentation of what they are doing is largely useless: I want to know what they are doing, and all they ever want to document
> is how they are doing what they are doing.)
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