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Subject:Re: Information Mapping From:Brad Connatser <cwrites -at- USIT -dot- NET> Date:Sat, 31 Aug 1996 02:18:21 GMT
In article <9608302258 -dot- AA09757 -at- plamondon -dot- com>, Robert Plamondon
<robert -at- plamondon -dot- com> wrote:
> Brad Connatser writes:
> >I cannot understand I guess how you can say that "seven plus or minus two
> >cannot be quantified in documents" when I do it all the time. We group all
> >tasks in procedures so that they do not exceed 9 steps. If we have a
> >procedure with more than 9 steps, we feel we have not done our job to break
> >up the job tasks into manageable groups. We use the 9-step threshold as
> >our "bell" to signify we need to rexamine what's going on.
Brad Connatser didn't write it; Bill Bledsoe did.
Brad
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