COORDINATION OF PROPOSED GUIDELINES FOR DOCUMENTATION OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND AUTOMATED DATA SYSTEMS FOR THE INITIATION PHASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000300200002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 21, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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21 April 1978
MEM:ORAPIDUM FOR: Harry S. White, Jr.
Associate Director far. ADP Standards
National-Bureau of Standards
U.S. Department of Commerce
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STATINTI~R?M
Depu y D~rec?or or Applications
Office of Data Processing
SUIIJECT Coordination of Proposed Guidelines for
Documentation of Computer Programs and
Automated Data Systems for the Initiation
Phase
REFEREPJCE Your Memo, Same Subject, Dated 10 March '7$
1,, We have reviewed your paper on the guidelines
far the documentation of computer programs during the
initiai~ion phase and it is surprising haw close your
standards come to our actual practices.- Our users request
.work w:Lth a form that is very similar to your Project
Request Document. We also conduct feasibility studies on
all sya~tems where it is not clear what direction the
computer support should take.
2., The one comment I would make about the feasibility
study :is that in Section 3, which is System Requirements
and Objectives, you specify more detail. than we generally
put in a feasibility study. I.am not convinced that, for
examplE~, the detailed description of each file and its
edit criteria-helps the-user choose amoung the various
altern