RE: ratio of tech writers to developers at your company?

["Tom Johnson" <thj -at- tampabay -dot- rr -dot- com>]

Why would the ratio be meaningless? I am gathering the data on behalf of a
colleague who wants to present it to a manager in hopes of increasing the
pool of writers. We have a ratio of about 1 writer to 70 developers. (By
developers, I am including all other IT folks, such as testers and proj.
managers, etc.)

I'm not sure how the industry will play out.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:23 PM
To: Tom Johnson; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: ratio of tech writers to developers at your company?

> We are gathering statistics about the ratio of technical 
> writers to software developers. Could you please share any
> information you have on the number of tech writers your 
> company has versus the number of developers? 

1 tech writer to 20 developers.
I think you are going to find that the ratio means nothing. 

> We'd also appreciate it if you could let us know your primary
> industry, such as financial, medical, etc. 

Insurance/HR/Consulting. How do you expect that that will have any
bearing?


John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"So long and thanks for all the fish."


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