End of Week 7 Reflection

Another short week this week, but with lots of material covered. The main topic of discussion this week for me was dealing with change in the workplace. I gave an example of a change that happened in the workplace at a previous job I had where a guy wasted so much time on a project that easily could have been done in 30 minutes if he would have been able to reach the proper documentation on a new script that is supposed to be run to fix the problem. The problem was migrating permissions from Novell to Windows and this guy decided to do it all manually which wasted many man hours. A good question came up in this discussion on whether or not it is as important to have proper documentation on changes in the workplace in a smaller company as opposed to a bigger company. My response to this question was "I can't say that it is AS important in a smaller company as there are less people and less work so for a situation like this to occur is more rare compared to within a bigger company. I do believe however that it is still a very important factor in a business to succeed. It goes back to documentation and previous examples I've put out there where many problems occurred just because the proper documentation was not available. Like I said above time is money and so much time is waste without proper documentation and I cannot stress it enough based on my past experiences." It'd be interesting to hear other people's opinions on this question.