Re: Measurable objectives?

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Sure. The function is to create a User Guide. To create the User
Guide, I follow the process for creating a UG.

To create a Release Note, I follow the process for creating RNs.


--- Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> This may be a matter of symantics.  The way I understand it:
> Process = Function.  It appears to me that, if you are formulating
> function objectives, you must already have some functions (i.e.,
> processes) in place.
>    
>   Richard Lewis
> 
> John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> > In order to have specific, measurable objectives, specific,
> > concrete processes are required. That is where you are going to
> > run into problems as a TW. It is not like engineering where
> > formal analysis preceeds formal design - it is, for most, an art.
> 
> Don't agree. At my company, we fill out an MBO four times a year
> and our quarterly bonus is based on it.
> 
> Each quarter, I need to define about 6 functional objectives and
> 2-3
> developmental objectives. The functional can be projects I've been
> assigned and completed, projects that improve a departmental
> process,
> or something along those lines. Developmental objectives can be
> training in a technology I've signed up for, a college course, a
> seminar, etc.
> 
> At the end of each quarter, how much I've met that goal is
> determined, up to 100%, and that percentage is applied against my
> quarterly bonus.
> 
> John Posada
> Senior Technical Writer
> 
> "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've
> never actually known what the question is."
> 
> 
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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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