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Subject:Re: Technical Writers per Developer From:Steve Delanghe <zulu -at- CIX -dot- COMPULINK -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Sun, 15 Jan 1995 14:40:46 GMT
>>The Technical Communications Department here is interested in
determining
>>some kind of "standard" or accepted figure for the number of technical
>>writers that a company should have per developer. The Society for
I think you'll find the accepted standard is none: unless the software is
released tomorrow, and a big customer is demanding "the manual" ...
Steve
zulu -at- cix -dot- compulink -dot- co -dot- uk
(...hang the sense of it, just keep yourself busy...)
