I wonder if you might benefit from moving your documentation out of word document format. A public wiki that you can enlist your customers help in refining, might be the ticket. Make the documentation easier to update by all parties and share it among all the customers. I have always felt that the closer any thing gets to a word document the more out of date and inaccurate it becomes. Maybe its time to agile up your documentation as well.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Anne Wax <[email protected]> wrote: > I appreciate all the comments and discussion. > > Yes, quality goes in all along the way. We unit and web test, and also as > Bobby says do a week long manual regression test. > > But..in the end, don't you see/learn new things at the end of the cycle, > that you may want to incorporate into the next cycle (or a future cycle). > Or once the whole feature is before your eyes, you realize that later things > you did really should be refactored back into the whole? Or tools should be > enhanced? > > For me, this conversation is underscoring the importance of doing the > refactoring as we go, which we do as much as possible, while, as Justin says > meeting our customer deliverables/deadlines. > > Also for us, the product includes technical documentation such as > installation guides for new features. Our discussions are leading us to the > conclusion that we need to build customer facing documentation such as > installation guides as part of the initial build vs at the end of a > release. They tend to uncover issues, especially because our customers have > varied environments (dual/single web server, server farms, different > versions of IIS etc, varied security policies/implementations). I have a > feeling we are headed in that direction very soon. > > Anne > > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Bobby Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Always, I think the main take away with agile is there are no set in stone >> rules; instead measure and adjust. >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Justin Bozonier >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> "I would also suggest that the definition of quality in your project >>> needs to be set up front with clear goals." >>> >>> I love that and completely agree (with the caveat that when things >>> change.. Well.. Things will change). >>> >>> <codemonkey expression="big smile" /> >>> >>> On Dec 23, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Bobby Johnson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I would also suggest that the definition of quality in your project needs >>> to be set up front with clear goals. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> "The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be >> correct." >> >> - Occam’s Razor >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_Razor> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- "The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct." - Occam’s Razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
