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SUBJECTS
Reference Field Maintain in Sync with Citations and Links
Improvement SDS New Report Reference Field on Records Where a Record

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0605 - Summary/Objective
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060601 - Follow up ref SDS 7 0000. ref SDS 4 0000.
060602 -
060603 - Yesterday, Gary asked about extending the system of reporting that
060604 - lists records where a document is listed in the Reference or a
060605 - contact is in the Contacts field, to provide a report where a record
060606 - is listed in the Reference field.
060608 -  ..
060609 - This was reviewed previously on 030525. ref SDS 7 0001
060611 -  ..
060612 - Submitted an email with a link to this record for background and
060613 - comment.
060615 -  ..
060616 - The next day, Gary sent a letter with further analysis...
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060619 -    1.  Subject: RE: SDS Report on Forward Links??
060620 -        Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 07:38:05 -0800
060624 -         ..
060625 -    2.  Rod,
060627 -         ..
060628 -        ==New Report Type Suggested
060630 -         ..
060631 -        Clearly the issue of references both to records and to files
060632 -        being carried forward but not used for references creates a
060633 -        difficulty. That is one reason I suggested that it be
060634 -        considered.
060636 -         ..
060637 -    3.  I already have mixed feelings about removing references that
060638 -        aren't used, as I use record references as an index into the
060639 -        history of meetings for example -- from the schedule record for
060640 -        a meeting I can get to any previous meeting very easily.
060642 -         ..
060643 -    4.  I believe that the eventual solution will be a pointer file
060644 -        that manages actual references rather than reference items, and
060645 -        that should wait until we have more power to deal with it.
060647 -         ..
060648 -    5.  I have ranted on this before, but I do take strong exception to
060649 -        the statement that you make on 030525, saying...
060650 -
060651 -              "This has marginal utility, since we have been using SDS
060652 -              for 20 years and this has never come up." ref SDS 7 IO6F
060653 -
060655 -         ..
060656 -    6.  I suggest that you consider how many items on the list of
060657 -        improvements made over the last year to 18 months haven't come
060658 -        up in 20 years of using SDS. It is true that we are evolving a
060659 -        sizeable set of stable functions as discussed in my email of
060660 -        040213, but we have so far to go that the fact that a concept
060661 -        hasn't yet been discovered is never sufficient reason, in and
060662 -        of itself, to conclude that it won't be enormously useful.
060664 -         ..
060665 -    7.  Most distressing about this viewpoint is that this is *exactly*
060666 -        the attitude we are fighting when we try to get SDS and its
060667 -        concepts adopted -- "we have been doing business this way for
060668 -        years, and this has never been a problem".
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SUBJECTS
Aerospace company Evaluation Contract Letter to Morris on Terms and Con  tions    07
Johnson, Gary Letter to Morris Saves Gary Time for Performing Delibe
Procedures Com Metrics Social Protocols Intelligence Support Role Pi
Psychologically Demanding Com Manager Consistently Discovering Notif
Competence Executives Managers Threatened by Com Manager Fear Lookin
Correspondence Prepare by Com Manager
Executive Aide Com Manager Ensures Management Productive Organizing
Deliberation Balance Limited Time for Analysis Time Not Enough to Th
Engineers Don't Like to Write
Pioneers Developing Com Metrics Procedures Intelligence Social Proto
Bucher, Nancy Aerospace company US Army  combat Project Transformation   eady-as-sh   20
Jones, Morris Letter Notify Morris of Terms and Conditions for Agree
Jones, Morris Letter Training Exercise Procedures Com Metrics Social
Technical Support Effective Using SDS with Any Communication Method
Add Value Productive Meetings Regardless of What Was Actually Said B

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301801 -  ..
301802 - Letter to Morris Long Overdue
301803 - Com Analyst Developing Level of Support Social Protocols
301804 -
301805 - Follow up ref SDS 9 0000.
301806 -
301807 - Gary comments on planning in a post script, shown below for
301808 - convenience, ref SDS 0 X16Q, to follow up on the letter to Morris
301809 - developed on 040322, ref SDS 9 0001, and led to a draft for expediting
301810 - progress. ref SDS 9 MK3M  The post script further discusses developing
301811 - a working relationship between the Com Analyst and people getting
301812 - "intelligence" support.
301814 -  ..
301815 - Gary says in his letter today...
301816 -
301817 -    1.  I will tackle the letter to Morris no later than the weekend.
301818 -
301819 -            [On 040404 Gary sent a letter to Morris. ref SDS 10 0001
301821 -         ..
301822 -    2.  Thanks,
301824 -         ..
301825 -    3.  Gary
301826 -        714-896-2106
301827 -
301829 -  ..
301830 - Gary is referring to a Post Script in the letter to him last night
301831 - that says...
301832 -
301833 -
301834 -    4.  Post Script...
301835 -
301836 -        On the letter to Morris, if there are problems with the draft
301837 -        developed in the record on 040322, ref SDS 9 MK3M, we should
301838 -        try to set them out, so work can proceed to meet your
301839 -        requirements concurrent with your work on other tasks.
301841 -         ..
301842 -        If we wait until there is time to write a new letter, the
301843 -        effort will be hurried, disconnected from the record, or will
301844 -        not get done.  Notice, we are in part responding in April to a
301845 -        letter last October.
301847 -         ..
301848 -    5.  This is not a criticism of you, it reflects the scope of Com
301849 -        Metrics support to balance being deliberate with being timely,
301850 -        reported by Wayne on 911205. ref SDS 1 8402
301852 -         ..
301853 -    6.  We are working out in this little project some of the social
301854 -        dynamics of "making it happen" for Com Metrics implementing SDS,
301855 -        as Jackie has made it happen getting a good for go using SDS on
301856 -        the Aerospace company network.
301858 -         ..
301859 -    7.  For example, once the letter to Morris is out the door, it can
301860 -        be used to give Millie an update on the earlier letter to her
301861 -        in January saying we had taken a step back, but had hopes this
301862 -        year we would take some steps forward.  Now we have evidence of
301863 -        taking a step forward, and are working on the 2nd step of
301864 -        getting approval for distribution of intelligence on the
301865 -        intranet.
301866 -
301867 -            [On 040407 develop letter for Gary to send to Millie.
301868 -            ref SDS 11 0001
301870 -         ..
301871 -    8.  That kind of letter, particularly the last para, would boost
301872 -        Millie's feelings at a time when "feeling good" is critical in
301873 -        her personal battle.
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