Always read the whole email.
I work with some really amusing people. My boss asked a couple of us to look over a proposal we are delivering to the management team. Here is one of the responses he received;
"my apologies if these questions would be answered had I been in meetings with you guys last week...
PLC Amendments process diagram gives a lot of information regarding deliverables and owners during the Custom Software Request phase, but not during other phases. I think the diagram would be more useful to us all if we fleshed out the other steps in this chart.
On the Definition phase slide, I'm confused by the two bullets that state "MRD & EFS are superseded by the CIF" and "Variances between the MRD & EFS are worked out...". Maybe it's just me, but I could see that being confusing.
Do we have deliverables, etc. for the Mass Production phase? Again, probably just me, but I could see this raising questions if we don't flesh it out a little in the presentation.
I think we should add a short movie to the start of the presentation - "Lord of Software: The Fellowship of the Process" starring Sam as Frodo, Paul as Gimli (the angry dwarf), Dan Grandquist as Gollum, Kirk as Gandalf and me as Galadriel, queen of the elves and the most beautiful creature on Middle Earth.
Is it going to be possible to meet today or tomorrow morning to discuss this?
Thanks again -- Sean "
This is why it is important to read all your email... I was going to make it quote of the day but it needed to be in context.