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Subject:Re: Can someone learn to be detail-oriented? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- YAHOO -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:04:17 -0700
I used to have a tag line: "The only perfect document
I ever created is still on my C: drive"
--- Janet Valade <janetv -at- SYSTECH -dot- COM> wrote:
> <<They are so directed toward making the
> perfect
> > document that instead of getting the information
> into
> > someone's hands where it is of the most use and
> > getting on to the next document, they agonize over
> the
> > one document where nobody can use it and never get
> to
> > the next project.>>
> >
> In engineering, the saying goes:
>
> It's time to shoot the engineer so we can
> release the product.
>
> Janet
>
> Janet Valade
> Technical Writer
> Systech Corporation, San Diego, CA
>mailto:janetv -at- systech -dot- com
>
>
>
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