Re: Striving To Increase The Page Count Was: Estimation of the number of pages...

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

As a former test engineer in a previous career life, I would
dispute your generalization about testing as well as your
previous one about document pages.  Testing, like 
documentation, is also often looked upon as a cost center
that the organization would rather not expend time and
resources on, and test engineers and managers who can
demonstrate their ability to provide statistically reliable
verification results with a minimum of impact on cost and
schedule are usually more favorably regarded than those 
who submit proposals requiring more.

In my experience there are *occaisional* instances where
non-writing managers may suggest pages/time period as
a *possible* metric for writer productivity, but this has
not been "the norm" in *any* writing environment I have
been involved with in the past 20 years or so (in some
cases, because I acted promptly to prevent it).   If it has
been in yours, perhaps you and your colleagues have 
simply had the misfortune to be incompetently managed 
throughout your careers.

Gene Kim-Eng



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