Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt in tech writing

[Dan Goldstein]

Yo John,

You misread me. I was just responding to Milan's post - I'm not sure,
but I think he was referring to industry-specific certification for
medical device writers.

Yes, of course, documentation quality can be audited, quantified, and
improved. We do that.

Dan
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:10 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein
> Cc: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: Re: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt in tech writing
> 
> I'm a tech writer and I'm in the process of going for 
> lean six sigma GB. I've got my sponsors, I've submitted 
> my plan and am in the middle of putting together a team.
>  
> Dan... it's makes perfect sense for a tech writer to be 
> a GB. Can't documentation have poor quality and high 
> quality and can't quality be improved?
> 
> On 4/1/08, Dan Goldstein wrote: 
> 
> Hi Milan,
> 	
> I'm a QA Manager for a company whose medical devices 
> are ISO- and FDA-compliant, and I haven't heard of 
> writers being certified in this manner. Do you have 
> details?
> 

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