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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-07-27 under

"Communication is the massless ropes and frictionless pulleys of time management: it is often, quite imprudently, modeled as of negilible impact on the behavior of the system.

"It's not. Communication takes time. Memos, emails, budgets, schedules, specs aren't instantaneous to write or to read. The myriad communications which have to take place between the members of a complex project has enormous time overhead."

-- [livejournal.com profile] siderea, 2005-06-07

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posted by [identity profile] force-of-will.livejournal.com at 04:40pm on 2005-07-27
Very interesting.

Thanks.
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 10:28pm on 2005-07-27
Better yet, it's time that actually pays itself back in the end. Spend more time studying the specs, turn out a better project in the end. Write a better memo, cut down on required clarifications, interdepartmental phone calls, and organisational confusion (not to mention that neutrally-written memos ease political friction, and biased memos inflame it). Write better documentation, save yourself technical support contacts, improve your product's reputation (and possibly market share), and make your users happier.

Not that I'm, er, partisan or anything...
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