Re: Seminar ideas for advanced practitioners

Subject: Re: Seminar ideas for advanced practitioners
From: kcbillb2 <kcbillb2 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>
To: Ami WRIGHT <ami -at- ziplink -dot- net>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:57:23 -0600

Nothing ever changes...:)



Ami WRIGHT wrote:
> Making the business case for quality documentation.
>
>
> Here's an excerpt from the Eric Ray's first post to techwr-l in March 1993:
>
> "Right now the biggest problem I have is in convincing the powers-that-be
> that technical documentation will significantly reduce the user support
> load here. I am in the User Services group, and our help desk is swamped
> (our help desk calls have more than doubled in the past year, and the
> staffing has remained the same.)
>
> My feeling is that better and more documentation for the systems would
> reduce that load by answering the questions collectively (on paper) rather
> than individually (at the help desk). My boss agrees in principle, but
> principle doesn't get me much support or help."
>
>
> I think that many of us still have the same problem.
>
> -Ami
>
>
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