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Subject:Re: Doc. departments in the Corporate Org. Chart From:Scott Turner <sturner -at- airmail -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:59:04 -0600
In my last company the writers were part of Engineering Services, a
department of Engineering. Engineering Services was concerned with
Document Control, Version Control, engineering drawings, and the release
process.
Quite a delightful position. Our boss was fully involved with
documentation, since Engineering Services documented the software,
hardware, production drawing, et al.
Unfortunately the other senior management were mentally arthritic
midgets.
Scott
Bruce Byfield wrote:
>
> jgarison -at- ide -dot- com wrote:
> >
> > Development, IMHO, is the best place to be. That way, you are
> > organizationally aligned with the rest of the people who develop the
> > products your company sells. In my book, if it goes on the CD (or in the
> > box) it must be done by a development group.
> >
> > It sure beats being part of marketing or support.
>
> While writers need to interact closely with developers, their view
> is sufficiently different that they need to talk to more than
> developers. But marketing may be in touch with what users want, and
> support may know what problems users are having.
>
> That's why (if an organizational chart must be drawn up in the first
> place), I like writers to be on a sidebar, well away from the rest
> of the corporate structure. If they're doing their jobs well, they
> don't really fit into any single department.
>
> --
> Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
> Contributing Editor, Maximum Linux
> 604.421.7189 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com
>
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