RE: Specifics on the too-good-to-be-true job PLUS question

["Dubin, David" <David -dot- Dubin -at- sage -dot- com>]

Bonnie,
When I worked at PriceWaterhouse, I did a great deal of development
documentation. The key is to document the "WHY" of things, not just the
"what" of things. Development documentation is designed to provide a
software developer (engineer) a road map for coding. Simply documenting the
design and what is supposed to happen to each element only tells part of it.
It is equally important to tell why that function/process/task/step was
selected and what it is supposed to do for the end user. 

David

David B. Dubin, PHR 
Senior Curriculum Developer 
Sage Software 
727-579-1111 x 3356
david -dot- dubin -at- sage -dot- com
Your business in mind.

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Subject: Re: Specifics on the too-good-to-be-true job PLUS question

Bonnie Granat wrote:
> 
> I think some of you here have a rough idea of my capabilities as a
technical
> writer. I'm a good end-user writer, but I have no experience with software
> development documentation. I would be truly a novice -- but maybe it's
> something that a novice could pick up quickly?
> 
> Question: Can I learn this by doing it? Is the RUP process intuitive? Am I
> just out of my league here, and should I say so upfront and not waste his
or
> my time on further discussion of this project?
> 
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