On Jul 26, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
distributed in the heads of two experts for one or the other system.
Let us assume the experts are not readily available...
- I'm too green to formulate a coherent question
- experts do not like to be pestered by clueless newbie questions
- experts are simply too busy
The "knowledge" that has trickled down to me is as most technical documentation severely stripped of useful
context & content.
once you have discovered that M0760 and MENSA-FL are the same
That's the hard part... how are M0760 & MENSA-FL discovered to be the same?
Remember, we're looking at a data structure with 1700 data elements & analysts/programmers are pawing over this stuff on a regular basis.
In theory there should be documentation... but situations like this typically come down to: "the code is the documentation."