RE: re tech pubs organizational question

["Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com>]

Mark L. Levinson wrote:
>When I rule the world, the technical writers will not
>report to the engineering managers.  Maybe vice versa.
>"This manual is going out Tuesday, have the product
>ready Monday."  Yes, that makes more sense...

...and the manual will be used as a spec for the product, instead of the
more common scenario: "Write the manual from this spec, it's got all the
information you'll need. Don't bother the developers, they're far too busy
getting the product to work."

Jane Carnall
16. I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one
thing I want to know."
<http://minievil.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html> (Actually, I *will*:
that's the problem with being an Evil Technical Writer Overlord: "But before
I kill you, there's just these 43 comments from the first draft that you
have never responded to. Do it now.")




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