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RE: What do you do when you don't have anyone with the time to review and edit your docs
Subject:RE: What do you do when you don't have anyone with the time to review and edit your docs From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Meryl R. Cohen" <merylster -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, Wade Courtney <wade -dot- courtney -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:19:53 -0500
Meryl R. Cohen sighed:
> 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.
Can you get hold of some of that "finished" documentation?
You could edit some of the worst passages and use that as
an approach for a contract position... moonlighting if you
are already in a new job.
You'd be in the best position, having recent, intimate
familiarity with the company and its products... unless
they've got some silly rules against contracting with
[recent] ex-employees. Of course, you could get around
that by forming a corporation to do the contracting.
- Kevin
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