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Re: Any ideas for a presentation on the documentation process?
Subject:Re: Any ideas for a presentation on the documentation process? From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Oct 1999 16:34:33 -0500
> I and a writer in my group are going to give a presentation on the
> documentation process to the engineers and probably some marketing people.
> Has anyone had any luck doing the same thing or any ideas on how
> to make it interesting?
I did something similar recently... we made it a little interesting by breaking
our production process down into several small steps and asked participants to
arrange the steps in order. (OK, so it wasn't *very* interesting, but at least
it got them involved.) They weren't even close. It helped them to realize that
(1) the time to add and/or change things is *very* early in the process, (2)
once we have input from the SMEs we still have a lot of work to do, and (3)
there's a lot of work involved in the whole thing!
