Re: Software development: they must let us in!

[Stuart Reynolds <stuartr -at- FIRSTGRAPHICS -dot- COM>]

-- [ From: Stuart Reynolds * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --

> I'm real concerned about this picture we're all painting of
>  communication lapses between software developers and
>  documenters. It is a widespread problem, one I struggle with
>  daily.

Ya.  I don't know if I've just been spoiled, in the clients I've had, or if
there is a different mind-set  up here in Canada.  I really can't see it
being the latter, to be perfectly honest, but  I've never really had a
problem with the programmers/developers.  If I wanted tto know something, I
just walked in and started asking til I found the right person with thee
answers.  I do some programmin, so perhaps it is because I tech-talk  at the
same level.  Though I never really noticed that either.  I tdefinately
wasn't becasue I am a man, as two of the manuals I have worked on, had a
woman as the other half of the team and she got the same "sooperation" that
I did.  I would like to ask, if people are actually  going face-to-face or
using email.  If it is the latter, you might wanna try going to their "neck
of the woods".  When you are trying to develop/write source, email cna
become more of a hassle that anything else and tend to get either ignored or
turned off til late in the day or week.

Stui
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  stuartr -at- firstgraphics -dot- com