Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!)

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I said a *usable* product document, not an excellent one
or even a good one.  And "enough time" is often more time 
than is available before the product has to ship.  All you 
need to do to see my point is look at the nearest shareware 
program, the documentation for which is usually written by 
the program's creator, who knows the program inside out 
and wasn't working to any hard deadline.  The instructions 
for these are usually horribly written, but still sufficiently 
usable to enable you to work with the program.

Project management skills are not a substitute for writing
skills, they are required *in addition to them* for successful
technical writing.

Gene Kim-Eng


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