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by Herring 5935 days ago
source control, debugging, bug trackers, etc? But they probably don't need the full engineering toolkit..
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bmj 5934 days ago
It's surprising how some non-programmers cannot wrap their heads around source control. I work in a high-regulated environment, so we produce reams of documentation for a project, and various non-technical members of the team must be able to use our bug tracking system (even for so-called spec defects) and version control.

My current project's manager (the "product manager," who isn't necessarily technical) uses source control, but checks in/adds a new file for each revision. We've tried to explain that's what version control does but he just doesn't get it.

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allenp 5934 days ago
Sounds like a pain point - better get to work on subversion for ms office ;)

EDIT: I just realized after I wrote this that Sharepoint has some of this functionality (versioning) but imo is a bear to use.

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bmj 5934 days ago
The word on the street is that we'll be moving to Sharepoint for some document management. I'll be curious to see how that goes.

My group (R&D) has been using a home-grown requirements management system for a few small projects, and ideally we'd move to that for our specs.

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