Wednesday, May 19, 2004
More documents, and when the document gets in the way
Wednesday up till lunch time has also been quiet. I've finished the backlog of updates and I'm now moving on to some new changes. I'll see if I can slip in some process improvements at the same time.
By way of a diversion, I had to field some problems relating to the definition of "Access Roles", for which I have become the local expert (mainly because everyone else avoids the problem).
In this case the difficulties are: the readership and purpose of one of the key documents wasn't considered (and it is being used in an inappropriate way), and migration wasn't considered when the changes from one release to another were specified.
In this particular case I have had doubts about the way this document has been used for some time. It's difficult to put succinctly, but the "purpose" of the document does not seem to be clear, and the emphasis seems to be solely on "control", rather than producing anything.
By way of a diversion, I had to field some problems relating to the definition of "Access Roles", for which I have become the local expert (mainly because everyone else avoids the problem).
In this case the difficulties are: the readership and purpose of one of the key documents wasn't considered (and it is being used in an inappropriate way), and migration wasn't considered when the changes from one release to another were specified.
In this particular case I have had doubts about the way this document has been used for some time. It's difficult to put succinctly, but the "purpose" of the document does not seem to be clear, and the emphasis seems to be solely on "control", rather than producing anything.
# posted by tom_gillies @ 12:04 PM 
