Is that _The Mythical Man-Month_? Excellent book. A few decades ago my boss bought a bunch of copies and passed them around; I read it with much interest and have valued its lessons since then.
...Come to think of it, I should get myself a copy and reread it. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. -Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan Skoglund Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2020 18:47 That is one of the lessons in Brook's "Man month" book - documentation is king/definition of the future product. --- tor 2020-07-16 klockan 23:12 -0300 skrev Clark Morris: > And will they have an adequate test mechanism for both online and > batch? The hardest part of my job where I worked was getting a > coordinated set of test data that I could use as a base. I also have > come to the conclusion that the way systems should be developed is > the > helps and user documentation would come before code and form the > specifications for the system. In some of the newer development > methodologies, maybe that could be concurrent. All fixes would be > either changes to the code to match the help and documentation or the > help and documentation to match the code. Technical writers should > be > a part of the development teams. A large portion of the coding > community including me is poor at writing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
