Re: What do you do when you don't have anyone with the time to review and edit your docs

["Meryl R. Cohen" <merylster -at- gmail -dot- com>]

The company where I used to work (Thank you recession) laid off all 3 tech
writers and kept some developers and QA. So developers now write doc for
their own work. Some of them are good writers, but how can you possibly
catch errors when you doc your own features. At least if they wrote about
each others' new software there would be some built-in sanity check. Sigh.

  --Meryl

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Wade Courtney <wade -dot- courtney -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just recently finished a user guide. I've sent it out for review, and
> I
> have reviewed and edited it many times myself, but I am at a point where I
> can no longer spot my mistakes. What do you do when there is no one to read
> your stuff, and they still want to push out the docs anyway without a
> proper
> review.
>
> I feel (sorry David) that they are going to come back to me and nail me for
> mistakes, even though they know that there wasn't a proper review. I have
> worked for employers in the past that expected perfection. I realize that
> this concept is not realistic, but it's still very prominent.
>
> Am I making sense? Does anyone have any advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wade
>
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