On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote: > > I experienced this sort of thing quite a few times over the 30 years that I worked in IT. > > People wouldn't adequately document things &/or would leave & take docs w/ them. > > Even after all such info was supposed to be electronically recorded, it seemed that quite a lot was not. > > Hence, the 'Wheel' had to be re-invented, over & over. IT, as a field in general is horrid at documentation; then again, IT seems to operate as though ‘Uhh, Houston, we have a problem’ as Normal Operating Procedure. I would hope that engineering R&D would work more along the lines of chemistry R&D, where keeping a good, readable notebook is an expected task, particularly in scaling to production processes. On the gripping hand, Oak Ridge may never really gotten out of it’s "Manhattan Project” 24/7 “we’re fighting an existential threat" mindset; that’s a powerful and hard-to-change institutional culture. "Get the job done, never mind the paperwork!" -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
