Last week I described the hyper-meta-documentation on which we labor now. This past week we are suffering a kind of task-creep where all information has to be everywhere so that each head of the customer hydra sees the information in the format it wants. This becomes an information issue in trying to keep all of the documents corrected in tandem as updates are made. My usual response is to use one document as the source, or create an information source document and have other documents either reference this source or be linked to it. I investigated this course, but I’ve not found a way to do this (I’ve asked) – leaving as the only option, the time consuming method of manually updating all documents in the case of an information update.
Oh, and you know that plan to plow through this effort efficiently that I spent time on last week? This linking of information from the previous paragraph forces the completion of the least efficient document first.
This has consumed all of my time this week.
Tenuously connected are the interactions of the cat and dog in the ‘Get Fuzzy‘ strip. I wonder if Darby Conley is knowingly or intuitively following in the tradition of Greek and Shakespearean plays by his use of the dog as the chorus or jester?
