RE: Necessity of Doc Plans for a Single Chapter or Section

[SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com]

"tekWriter tekWriter" <sfsutekwriter -at- hotmail -dot- com> want to know if a doc plan 
is needed when only one chapter of a document will be revised. I think a doc 
plan is needed even when only one *word* is changed. The doc plan is your 
contract, and not producing one is tantamount to doing work under the table. 
Where will you be when the one chapter turns into five new chapters, and the 
project manager wants to know why you're so slow?

But there are doc plans and there are doc plans. I have written 50-page doc 
plans, for a 15,000-page doc set. I have also written a short e-mail message 
as a "doc plan" for a small, fast-turnaround project. Hopefully you have the 
same flexibility, but I think every project should have a plan of record, 
even a one-chapter change.

          -- Steve

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