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Taking it easy...
Dec. 26th, 2014 10:24 pmI took advantage of a lull in work to make another batch of corn muffins, which are all gone now.
The lull was the result of realizing (guessing?) that the Russian-language documents I've been given were generated in response to an English-language document, so I bugged my project manager for those original documents.
The idea (which I will prove one way or another tomorrow) is that if the Russian side worked this the way I've seen it done in other contexts (both there and here), they'll be reusing a certain amount of text.
Consider, for example, a requirement that says something like "the proposal shall ensure that X, Y, and Z occur in the course of work." You'd hope to see a sentence in the proposal that echoes this, e.b., "this proposal hereby ensures that X, Y, and Z shall occur in the course of work." The proposal may then go on to detail how that's going to happen, but in my experience responding to RFPs in the US, echoing RFP requirements in the proposal is almost a sine qua non in preparing one.
If nothing else, however, at least I'll get a good grounding in what the document is supposed to be about.
Nothing much else happened today. We drove around a bit, visited the B&N, and then picked up a bottle of prosecco for our anniversary Sunday. (A dry run—or maybe not so dry—for New Year's Eve.)
Cheers...
The lull was the result of realizing (guessing?) that the Russian-language documents I've been given were generated in response to an English-language document, so I bugged my project manager for those original documents.
The idea (which I will prove one way or another tomorrow) is that if the Russian side worked this the way I've seen it done in other contexts (both there and here), they'll be reusing a certain amount of text.
Consider, for example, a requirement that says something like "the proposal shall ensure that X, Y, and Z occur in the course of work." You'd hope to see a sentence in the proposal that echoes this, e.b., "this proposal hereby ensures that X, Y, and Z shall occur in the course of work." The proposal may then go on to detail how that's going to happen, but in my experience responding to RFPs in the US, echoing RFP requirements in the proposal is almost a sine qua non in preparing one.
If nothing else, however, at least I'll get a good grounding in what the document is supposed to be about.
Nothing much else happened today. We drove around a bit, visited the B&N, and then picked up a bottle of prosecco for our anniversary Sunday. (A dry run—or maybe not so dry—for New Year's Eve.)
Cheers...
