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Re: Pecentage of techwriters in relation to other employees
Subject:Re: Pecentage of techwriters in relation to other employees From:Charles Cantrell <chc -at- ONTARIO -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 16 Mar 1996 15:49:15 GMT
Actually, I think the original question makes a good deal of
sense. Working in a software development house, I use a figure
of about 1 technical writer to 10 programmers to keep up with
their output.
If you are playing catch up, that ratio needs to be higher.
