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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:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"Steve Phillips" <sm -dot- phillips -at- verizon -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:41:10 -0800
If your developer group doesn't create design specs for their
new products, your company has much larger problems
than its user docs.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Steve Phillips" <sm -dot- phillips -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: How to Convince Development Dept to Provide External and
Internal Design Specs?
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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