Re: Article: email is new database

From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 08:36:55 -0400
Message-Id: <kigsj2-kj6.ln1@pluto.downsfam.net>

lennart_at_kommunicera.umea.se wrote:

>
> Kenneth Downs wrote:
>
> [...]
>

>>
>> So lets you say you have a company doing some type of custom work,

> such as

>> making molds for plastic injection (or a software company).  They

> have some

>> type of job control software perhaps integrated with their

> accounting. How

>> does the structured job control system relate to the unstructured

> emails

>> that go back and forth between the customer and the project manager?

> Not

>> the emails going out from a system as notifications, but the emails

> going

>> person-to-person in which the project is being discussed.
>>

>
> Interesting, but IMO email, phonecall, postit or whatever, are fine as
> long as they in the end result in a more structured agreement (a design
> document for example).
>

>> Seems to me these emails should somehow be pumped through a pipe that

> gloms

>> useful information out of them and adds them to the paper trail for
>> projects and things.  Not a small job however, wish I could say how

> to do

>> it.

>
> Possible for email perhaps, but what about phone, discussions over
> lunch etc?
>
>

today email, tommorrow the world.

-- 
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)

Received on Sun Apr 24 2005 - 07:36:55 CDT