Re: Being Resourceful

Subject: Re: Being Resourceful
From: "Sharon Burton-Hardin" <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:37:13 -0700

I have been on projects where I was not allowed to actually talk to the
developers because they were too busy to be bothered, their manager told me.
It didn't go as well as it should have... And we were all in different
buildings. Proximity is so important.

I sent the link for Eric's article to many people, project managers and tech
writers who are not on the list. Excellent article, Eric!

sharon

Sharon Burton-Hardin
Anthrobytes Consulting
909-369-8590
www.anthrobytes.com
Vice-president, Programs of the Inland Empire chapter of the STC
www.iestc.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, 25 June, 2001 9:30 AM
Subject: RE: Being Resourceful


| This is why I think that it's always a good move for the technical writer
| (whatever team they're nominally part of) to be sitting where the
developers
| are sitting. If you're right there with your ears wide open you *hear*
| things like "Oh no, the buzfuz has gone zdatlany, we're going to have to
| rewrite three modules!" even if no one makes a point of telling you. And
you
| notice when all the developers suddenly rush off for mass meetings that
| weren't on your calendar. And you can casually stick your head round the
| door and inquire "Are these changes going to affect the documentation?
Mind
| if I sit in?"
|
| Speaking from sad experience (the worst documentation project I was ever
| involved with was when I was in a different *building* from the rest of
the
| development team).
|
| Jane Carnall
| Technical Writer, Digital Bridges, Scotland
| Unless stated otherwise, these opinions are mine, and mine alone.



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