[Framers] What causes documentation to fail

Lin Sims ljsims.ml at gmail.com
Fri May 20 13:05:29 PDT 2016


I'd say that the biggest problem is having managers and SMEs who consider
documentation to be of little or no importance compared to their "real"
work, so their responsibility to provide information or answer questions or
perform reviews is ignored or skimped on.

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:35 PM, <john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com> wrote:

> I've never seen a documentation project fail because it had 10 bullets in
> it. :-)
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> From:   "Fred Ridder" <DocuDoc at hotmail.com>
> To:     John X Posada/HBUS/HSBC at HSBC02, "peter at knowhowpro.com"
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> Cc:     "Framers (E-mail)" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
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> Subject:        Re: [Framers] What causes documentation to fail
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> Aren't bullet points subject to the "universal" 7 +/-2 rule? If so, 10
> bullets would be doomed to failure. But John's original list would be OK at
> 8 bullets.
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> ;^)
> -FR
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> Thanks, Peter...but between you and me, I've never experienced a failed
> documentation project because 10 bullets was used. :-).
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> John X Posada
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> America Holdings Inc
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> From:   "Peter Gold" <knowhowpro at gmail.com>
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> Date:   05/20/2016 01:10 PM
> Subject:        Re: [Framers] What causes documentation to fail
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> * Too many bullet points?
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> * Or too few?
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