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Subject:taking too long From:"Genevieve Roberts" <gen -at- qrtz -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:52:48 -0700
How do you handle "What's taking so long?"
My boss has asked me that twice, once at three months, once at six months. I
told him the writing is generally expected to take as long as the coding. He
said, "Is that on a one-to-one level? Five writers to five coders?" I was
flummoxed. What would you have said?
I have spent six months writing five hundred pages from scratch, with four
hundred screenshots for which I took the shot, cropped it or whatever,
inserted it, and provided call outs. I am writing documentation for
databasing software that uses SQL Server 2000.
Thank you,
Genevieve
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