On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:41 PM, David Richards
ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:
Greetings all,
Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one
question in an email? In fact, I'll generalise that and say people
often don't read an entire email. I had this today
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:41 AM, David Richards
ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:
Greetings all,
Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one
question in an email? In fact, I'll generalise that and say people
often don't read an entire email. I had this today (already)
It is funny you should say this. One of the guys i work with at a
partner company and I always say include only one fact per email. :)
I try to do that but when requirements get complicated it can get hard.
--
David Connors
Software Engineer
Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com
Phone: +61 (7)
My rule of thumb is if the email starts to get too complicated pick up the
good old phone :-)
On 26 February 2010 08:25, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:
It is funny you should say this. One of the guys i work with at a
partner company and I always say include only one fact per email. :)
People don't read more than the first 2 lines of emails. For example I
stopped reading after I'll generalise :)
Regards
Arjang
On 26 February 2010 08:41, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:
Greetings all,
Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one
The problem with using emails as requirements documents...
Q: Where are the requirements for the cruise control software?
A: I'll forward you the email trail of the discussions I had with Toyota.
a year or so goes by
Q: Don't you know the cruise control should disengage when you brake?
A: Sorry
You mean that's not the norm? :)
Requirements docs are like bigfoot. You are assured it exists but when
you see it, you are disappointed to find it is little more than just
do it. Plus its wearing a digital watch.
David
If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
will fall like a
What is needed is a replacement of email. A format that allows editing and
versioning built into the email client.
Then you can say. Ahh. Jim changed this line of the email on this date and
then Jane changed it again a week later.
It will save millions of dollars in bandwidth costs too.
On Fri,
Ah...
_That_ already exists. It's called Google wave.
https://wave.google.com/wave/
--
noonie
On 26 February 2010 12:00, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.comwrote:
What is needed is a replacement of email. A format that allows editing and
versioning built into the email client.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Parker
jonathanparkerem...@gmail.com wrote:
What is needed is a replacement of email. A format that allows editing and
versioning built into the email client.
Then you can say. Ahh. Jim changed this line of the email on this date and
then Jane changed
I agree. I also think people are beginning to imagine email to be the
same as things like IM, SMS, etc. Obviously it's not.
I can take my original question/statement and expand it to include
instructions in email. More often than not (not an exaggeration this
time) people don't read my
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