The latest crazy idea is to use blogs to keep up with project management. Why would my developers want to write yet another document? First they have to write requirements documents and design documents. Not to mention the email that has to be sent to notify the other developers of what is going on. Now, they have to blog too?
Could the answer be: No more email. You have a message that needs to go out? Blog it. You change the way something works? Blog it. Need to write some documentation? Blog it... On the documentation Blog.
It is quite a different idea of how to do things. Humorously, on Wednesday, one of my developers brought up using our wiki for this very idea. I had an idea about how to use a bliki (blog crossed with a wiki) as a document management tool and I squashed both for all of the same reasons Mark did. In short, people won't do it well enough to make it worthwhile.
But then, there is the whole disable the email idea...
Posted by carl at June 7, 2003 10:16 PM
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