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RE: How to submit new version release information to the Technical writer
Subject:RE: How to submit new version release information to the Technical writer From:"technicoid" <technicoid -at- cableone -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 14 May 2004 08:05:41 -0600
>Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer people talk to me about this kind
of stuff
>rather than getting a document from someone and be told to wrap it into
the book
>or "make it look pretty".
Call me new fangled, but I like to see a specification. :-) That said, I
would use the spec only as reference material, never as source for the
user docs. I've never seen one detailed in such a way that it would be
useful for anything more than a guide. Make it look pretty? Nope, unless
they want me to write the spec myself. And nothing beats a face-to-face
discussion for getting the intricacies of the application.
>Why do the tech writers need a document to tell them this? Have they
not been involved
>in the project at all? If not, why not?
I agree wholeheartedly. In my last position, the company moved from a
silo model (where the documentation and development functions were
separate and distinct) into a model that included my team's
collaboration from the business case through the design specs. The
latter produced a much better product.
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