Re: Getting organized -- what's your method?

[Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

A bunch of #2 pencils, a big eraser, and some paper (I
prefer the back side of used copier paper - it is so
readily available)are the best tools for getting
organized.  I use these to rapidly draw and verify
essential functional and data models. 

The understanding that I get from these models really
helps to to properly modularize (i.e, organize) my
work.  

Visio and other software tools are a REAL initiative
killers when your trying to accurately and rapidly
perform analysis as a basis for documentation
organization! (Time is always so tight.) 

A very famous functional modeling technique (read:
task analysis technique) purposefully espouses the use
of curved lines in drawing flows.  Reason:  To get the
analyst (or tech writer) away from spending too much
time drawing pretty pictures on the computer and get
them out interfacing with the end-user.

AJ Markos
Focused On The Essential Lik A Laser!!!!

--- Elizabeth O'Shea
<elizabeth -dot- oshea -at- virtualaccess -dot- com> wrote:
 
> 
> It's interesting how many of us technical writers
> use low-tech methods in
> addition to technically-based methods to organise
> our projects. 

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