Re: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame

[Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

"Bonnie Granat" wrote

> If you are working on a product that doesn't include documentation as a vital
> component (one that doesn't come as an afterthought), you are working on an
> inferior product in an inferior organization.

Based on this criteria:

- 85% or more of all technologies are inferior. 
- 100% of all open-source technologies are inferior.
- Most of the major technological and scientific breakthroughs of the last 2000
years are inferior.

How did humanity survive this long? 

Documentation is rarely seen as a vital component until a competent and gifted
technical writer (somebody who is simultaneously very technical AND a good
writer) demonstrates how to make documentation a vital component. 

In other words, one of the reasons organizations don't consider documentation
vital, is because few writers are able to demonstrate the value of good
documentation.  

Andrew Plato 

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