RE: The Tech Writer as Smuggler

Subject: RE: The Tech Writer as Smuggler
From: "Stephen Arrants" <steve -at- mbfbioscience -dot- com>
To: "Sarah Stegall" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:10:41 -0400

Trafficking also means being responsible for routing, tracking, and managing things like projects, documents, etc. within a business from one department to another. As each department takes action, responsibility goes back to the traffic manager for further routing/action.

This term has been in use at least as long as I've been in publishing (almost 30 years).


>From a recent job description on Craigslist for a "Project Editor":

"Outsources and manages work from vendors and freelancers (includes
trafficking the product from outline and initial manuscript through
publication, and ensuring quality at every stage)"

Trafficking?!? I think they mean "tracking". Yeah, I guess they do need
an editor. Rather badly.

Sarah

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References:
How Do You Decide How Long Things Will Take (in a SCRUM Shop)?: From: Jerry Kindall
The Tech Writer as Smuggler: From: Sarah Stegall

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