Stewardship
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I'm reading up about some information standard. It says that some particular document "must have Stewardship" (amongst other more "normal" things like persistence and human readability"). A steward is a person that looks after you, like a person on an aeroplane that brings you food and drinks (and tells you off for not having your seat belt on). How does a document have "stewardship"? Does it come with a guy in a uniform? Or does the document come in a uniform and bows at you when you look at it? :confused:
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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I'm reading up about some information standard. It says that some particular document "must have Stewardship" (amongst other more "normal" things like persistence and human readability"). A steward is a person that looks after you, like a person on an aeroplane that brings you food and drinks (and tells you off for not having your seat belt on). How does a document have "stewardship"? Does it come with a guy in a uniform? Or does the document come in a uniform and bows at you when you look at it? :confused:
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
Your concept of a steward is very narrow. The first definition an Dictionary.com has the following. Many other dictionaries have at least one similar defition, amongst the others you seem to know better. [Emphasis mine] stew·ard[^] [stoo-erd, styoo-] Show IPA noun 1. A person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
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Your concept of a steward is very narrow. The first definition an Dictionary.com has the following. Many other dictionaries have at least one similar defition, amongst the others you seem to know better. [Emphasis mine] stew·ard[^] [stoo-erd, styoo-] Show IPA noun 1. A person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
OK, OK, I probably should have put a ;P on my post. I certainly don't think a document is going to wear a uniform and serve me tea, but still, I find it a very strange way of describing a property of a document. I suppose it means it is able to convey information as part of its function?
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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OK, OK, I probably should have put a ;P on my post. I certainly don't think a document is going to wear a uniform and serve me tea, but still, I find it a very strange way of describing a property of a document. I suppose it means it is able to convey information as part of its function?
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
Oh I see. I thought your OP was about a document having to have a steward.
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I'm reading up about some information standard. It says that some particular document "must have Stewardship" (amongst other more "normal" things like persistence and human readability"). A steward is a person that looks after you, like a person on an aeroplane that brings you food and drinks (and tells you off for not having your seat belt on). How does a document have "stewardship"? Does it come with a guy in a uniform? Or does the document come in a uniform and bows at you when you look at it? :confused:
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
It's because documents, and document-management systems, have been around for centuries longer than things like computer software and mass production systems. "Steward" is the correct word for the role, but has been replaced with terms such as "product owner" by the namby-pamby, the amateurish, and the "I've-only-just-discovered-that-there's-a-world-out-there" types.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's because documents, and document-management systems, have been around for centuries longer than things like computer software and mass production systems. "Steward" is the correct word for the role, but has been replaced with terms such as "product owner" by the namby-pamby, the amateurish, and the "I've-only-just-discovered-that-there's-a-world-out-there" types.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And the steward then is someone who is responsible for maintaining this particular document and keeping it current?
Sort of. It's his responsibility, but he doesn't do the work (that should sound familiar). He makes sure that any new information is fed to the technical writer(s), so that the document is kept up to date, reviewed correctly, and released to (internal and external) customers at appropriate times.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's because documents, and document-management systems, have been around for centuries longer than things like computer software and mass production systems. "Steward" is the correct word for the role, but has been replaced with terms such as "product owner" by the namby-pamby, the amateurish, and the "I've-only-just-discovered-that-there's-a-world-out-there" types.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
You forgot to shake your cane at the whippersnappers.
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You forgot to shake your cane at the whippersnappers.
Oh, no I didn't! youtube address to follow.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh, no I didn't! youtube address to follow.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I'm intrigued.