Starting a non-software-oriented documentation group?

[Geoff Hart]

Marsha Kamish wondered: <<Does anyone think it's any different?>>

All documentation groups face the same kinds of issues (e.g., gaining  
access to SMEs, editorial and technical reviews, learning about  
schedules, gaining representation with management, exerting some  
influence on produce or process design), but the details can be quite  
different. For example, if you're doing environmental safety or  
worker health work, you'll be working under a range of legal  
(regulatory) constraints that most software writers never face.

So the trick is to spend some time learning about the specific  
constraints that will affect you in your new role, and start thinking  
about how to live under those constraints -- or possibly even change  
the constraints.

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Geoff Hart   ghart at videotron.ca

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