Re: Avoiding documentation bottlenecks while maintaining quality?(take II)

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I'd like to think it's:

"Good, cheap, and fast: pick the degree of each which will constrain
the other two."

The complexity here is that you must tell clients one thing, and know
another for what you do as a writer.

Client-version "Good, cheap and fast: pick any two."

Self-version "Good, cheap and fast: pick the most important and
oversell it."

--- "nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il> wrote:

> Chris writes:
> > If you want good, cheap and fast, it will be possible, 
> > but material will by the nature of time be left out.
> 
> So now it's "Good, cheap, fast, and comprehensive:
> pick any three"?
> 
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