Re: This too is technical communication

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

If this is the way things work in your company/industry, 
you have bigger problems than just how the tech writers 
are perceived and utilized.  

It does, however, explain many of the problems I
have with much of the software I use.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Borokowski" <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>

> This is a good point, because it illustrates that more
> than anything else, we are shepherds of the interface
> between user and product and its actual use. No one
> else can afford to think of this; developers write
> code, project managers watch budgets, QA people look
> for bugs. We are looking at the big picture.

> We are the only people focused on the person-computer
> interface... 
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