Peer Review Process/Best Practices

["Jill Mohan" <jillemo -at- gmail -dot- com>]

This question may provoke only laughter - BUT, here goes...

Is there anybody out there using a slightly formalized process for getting
documents reviewed prior to delivery? If you are, can you share some best
practices?

Here is what we do currently - perhaps you could find remedies for glaring
errors?

Current state is -

   1. I send out a doc to a mixed team of talent and suits.
   2. Get silence for weeks.
   3. I work the charm offensive going desk-to-desk asking for feedback
   on areas that match expertise of desk's occupant.
   4. Trickle of feedback comes in from the charmed.
   5. I incorporate that feedback and recirculate the doc.
   6. Another few days of silence.
   7. Deadline gets moved up on system's delivery.
   8. Team asks for another copy of the doc.
   9. Various members demand changes to the system's interface or
   functionality due to things they hadn't noticed until they read said
   document.
   10. Engineers get the changes made.
   11. Suit suddenly appears and makes changes to "formalize" the crap
   out of a user's guide.
   12. I try to aggregate five to six different reviewer's notes -
   deciding on importance and relevance.

Thanks much,
Jill Mohan
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