Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!)

Subject: Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!)
From: "Damien Braniff" <Damien -dot- Braniff -at- asg -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:37:30 -0000


As Bruce said, it is quite common but some companies/managers DO care
and make the effort to learn and some learn the hard way. At one company
we did a project for the military and the project manager didn't factor
docs into the process at all - tech pubs'll 'knock something together'.
That 'something', written to exacting military specs, cost more than the
profit margin for the whole project. We were always asked after that!

Damien Braniff | Technical Writer
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