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Subject:Re: So this is why...! From:Jeff Hanvey <jewahe1 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:37:15 -0800 (PST)
--- Dan Emory <danemory -at- primenet -dot- com> wrote:
> Nobody's blaming it on the engineers. Don't you
> think
> it's defective process, at least in part, that
> launches
> projects that have no chance of succeeding? That's
> what is suggested elsewhere in the article I cited.
I guess I'm just thinking in terms of other
fields...projects are cancelled all the time,
regardless of how great the process behind their
creation is. The reasons are endless: financial,
labor, poor design, lack of interest, et cetera.
What I'm trying to get at is that the article doesn't
address the fundamental question of how much time the
engineer spends coding - or how much time s/he spends
in development meetings, or how much time s/he spends
on JUST working out bugs. The author lumps the last in
with "working on projects that are cancelled," which I
don't think is a fair measure of what programmers
truly ARE doing.
And how can we relate this to technical writing? Well,
how much time do you spend in development meetings?
Hacking out the pages? Revising and editing? Overall,
how much time do you think you spend actually WRITING?
And how often have you worked on a project that ending
up being cancelled?
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