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From: Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca>
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On 11-06-20 06:01 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:19:06 -0300, Arved Sandstrom
> <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> I've been trying for years to hit the right balance in blog articles,
>> design documents, RFP responses, presentations, tutorials, teaching
>> handouts, Usenet posts and Web forum questions, and also my own writing
>> for pleasure (this latter itself being of many different types). All I
> 
> [nice stuff snipped]
> 
>> I had the pleasure some months back of being commissioned to do 20 days
>> worth of work writing up a detailed design document in such an
>> environment. Normally for this client I do maintenance rescue coding,
>> but in this case the problem was complex and actually required a
>> developer - not a BA - to do the design. At the end of the 20 days I had
>> not only a clear and concise *real* detailed design document - one that
>> another developer could use - but also a working POC of the
>                                                   ^^^
>      What is this, please?

Ah, sorry, "proof of concept". POC = Proof Of Concept; POT = Proof Of
Technology.

[ SNIP ]

AHS