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Subject:Re: Productivity Formulas From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:14:52 -0700
At 11:07 AM 12/1/98 -0500, Susan Peradze wrote:
>Our tech writing group has been asked by management to determine our
>productivity in terms of number of pages produced (written, edited,
Well, I would go so far as to
say that measuring productivity
<insert gratuitious screencap here>
in terms of raw pages produced
is probably not the best way to
assess how well a writing group
<insert gratuitious screencap here>
is doing.
With a little creativity, careful
use of a thesaurus to find the
exact right/correct/long words,
enough graphics and screencaps,
sufficient redundancy,
and a large enough font, any
crap looks productive in those
metrics.
Has management considered assessing
productivity in terms of features
documented, pages of documentation
eliminated, or other ways?
Just a thought.
Eric
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*Award-winning author of several popular computer books
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*Technology Department Editor, _Technical Communication_
