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Comment by fool1987

Designers to design, draughtspeople to draught, archivists to archive.

Engineering entails a lot of secretarial work that has been "streamlined" by expecting engineers to do it themselves rather than employing professional secretaries to do so. The end result is that it is often left un-done.

The "enforcers" you talk about are basically secretaries, no? Trained individuals with enough understanding of the work at hand to record and file it in a context-aware manner.

Reminds me of the "surgical team" model from The Mythical Man Month [1] wherein there is a suite of people provided to every engineer to minimise their work outside of design and implementation. (At least that's how I remember it, it's a few years since I read it)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

parent fool1987 4 years ago

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