Re: Documentation Correctness was Re: How many levels of indents andheads are reasonable?

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

In most of the companies I've worked with, both as an engineer
and a writer, identifying the essential tasks and their interrelations
has been an essential part of successful product development.
The few companies I've worked with where this was left undone
for the documentation team to complete came nowhere near to
anything resembling success.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Lewis" <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>
>  It is easy to tell a TW to be correct, but, if that is as far as it goes, it is nothing.   Being correct means having performed a 
> rigorous analysis.   Such analysis is based on identifying the essential tasks to be performed and, most importantly, the 
> interrelationships between the tasks.   Unfortunately, nobody within the TW community - either in academia or industry - has 
> discussed this.  So incorrect documentation is pretty much gauranteed.

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