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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

5097.0. "An spd without ORDERING INFORMATION" by MKTCRV::KMANNERINGS () Wed Jan 22 1997 06:47

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5097.1pointerASABET::SILVERBERGMy Other O/S is UNIXWed Jan 22 1997 07:207
5097.2NQOS01::nqsrv237.nqo.dec.com::WorkbenchWed Jan 22 1997 07:4910
5097.3QUARK::LIONELFree advice is worth every centWed Jan 22 1997 08:048
5097.4LEXSS1::GINGERRon GingerWed Jan 22 1997 08:146
5097.5.3 really surprised me, sighMKTCRV::KMANNERINGSWed Jan 22 1997 08:1920
5097.6Try 1-800-DIGITALCSC32::S_WASKEWICZWed Jan 22 1997 14:022
5097.7They use SPD's !SUBSYS::BEAUSOLEILWed Jan 22 1997 14:2010
5097.8a good joke, that one :-)MKTCRV::KMANNERINGSThu Jan 23 1997 04:599
5097.9New SPD GuidelinesASABET::SILVERBERGMy Other O/S is UNIXThu Jan 23 1997 06:16989
5097.10LEXSS1::GINGERRon GingerThu Jan 23 1997 08:067
5097.11tennis.ivo.dec.com::TENNIS::KAMAltaVista Software 714/261-4133 DTN 535.4133Thu Jan 23 1997 10:175
5097.12Whose job is it ?MKTCRV::KMANNERINGSThu Jan 23 1997 13:1215
5097.13product managerASABET::SILVERBERGMy Other O/S is UNIXFri Jan 24 1997 06:027
    The person responsible for the SPD content/accuracy is ultimately
    the Product Manager.  If a SPD does not conform, he/she should fix
    it asap.  I will be happy to provide the Product Manager's name for
    any UNIX product.
    
    Mark (xirtlu::mark)
    
5097.14who manages the pms??MKTCRV::KMANNERINGSFri Jan 24 1997 06:5912
     >The person responsible for the SPD content/accuracy is ultimately
     >the Product Manager. 
    
    Thanks, but
    
    Who is responsible for monitoring the work of the product managers, ie
    making sure it still gets done when they leave, are off sick, get a new
    job, do a bad job etc ?
    
    If we don't have defined responsibility we can't implement stategy.
    
    ..Kevin.. 
5097.15Why we still need tech. writers :-) :-)TNPUBS::J_GOLDSTEINRun over on the Info HighwayFri Jan 24 1997 09:109
>>Who is responsible for monitoring the work of the product managers, ie
>>making sure it still gets done when they leave, are off sick, get a new
>>job, do a bad job etc ?

Why, the technical writer, who formats, edits, and submits the SPD :-)

(only half kidding...)

joan
5097.16TLE::REAGANAll of this chaos makes perfect senseFri Jan 24 1997 09:477
    Tech writers?  I haven't seen one near by project in at least a year.
    
    In my case, the product manager gives me the previous SPD.  I send
    her edits, she does what I say (most of the time :-)) and submits
    the SPD.
    
    				-John
5097.17REGENT::POWERSMon Jan 27 1997 08:4014
From the "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" department...

Everybody who has ever said "get those petty bureaucrats out 
of  the way and let me ship my product" should recognize this situation
as exactly what they asked for.
Somebody with a clipboard and a checklist lost his job or was reassigned,
and somebody else shipped a product with a non-conforming or missing SPD.

Do we still have PPCs (Pricing and Policy Committees)?
They are supposed to gate shipments and block them in instances like this.
I suppose we'll start shipping hardware without UL approval next.
That ought to leave a lot of boxes on the  shipping doc.

- tom]