doc-u-drama
my approach to design docs seems to be this: as thoughts occur to me, scribble ‘em on post-its & napkins, type ‘em into one-off text files & docs, scrawl ‘em on the nearest whiteboard…and promptly forget where i scribbled / typed / scrawled everything. then when critical mass is reached – when the time has come for all the relevant information to be in one place, vetted, updated, easily referenced and ready for implementation – i’ve got to spend a day or three tracking down all those scraps of knowledge and clumping them into a whole, like so many stray bits of play-doh.
it’s a funny thing being the guy who writes up a design then turns around and implements it. the docs are filled with slang and in-jokes only for me, plenty of obscenities and even more spelling & grammatical atrocities, and generally smack of unprofessionalism. sometimes i wonder why i bother writing them up at all.
oh yeah. because i’m the sole keeper of lots and lots information, and if i got hit by a bus tomorrow – splat! – all that wonderful info would be gone – poof! so, today is document day. turn up the caffeine, turn down the grindcore, and commence concentrating.
