Re: Measurable objectives?

Subject: Re: Measurable objectives?
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:08:27 -0800

Revise the document plan to change the deliverables and due dates to conform to the new marketing "requirements."

Get project management and marketing approvers to
sign on to changes so that the replacement of the original 125-page user manual with a web page and
three-sheet handout is on record as being directed
by marketing and agreed to by project management.

Revise documentation to meet the new requirements
(remember to hang on to the original document plan
and outline, as chances are the requirements will eventually change back).

The person who does this is someone who produces
documentation that meets the requirements of the
product as defined by the product owners. How would
this not be a technical writer?

Gene Kim-Eng.


----- Original Message ----- From: <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: Measurable objectives?


Richard is correct, at least as far as some of us
have seen. Imagine you were told to document the software.
Instead, you asked the developers some pointed questions,
and they redesigned the user interface, and perhaps
a fundamental algorithm. The result was that the
125-page user manual you were expected to produce
became a small web page and a three-sheet handout,
just so marketing would have *something* to give away.

Is the person who does this really a tech writer? Is
it correct to judge such a person by "writing"
criteria?

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