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Subject:tech writer to engineer ratio From:Daniel Shugrue <dbshugrue -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:59:21 -0800 (PST)
I have been conducting an informal survey of fellow
techwriters on how many tech writers are needed per
engineer in a software company.
I currently work in an environment that has
18 developers engineers
10 QA engineers
2 Tech Writers
I understand other companies work on similiar ratios
1 tech writer: 10 developers : 8 QA engineers
while others have as many as
1 tech writer : QA engineer : 4 developers.
Anyone interested in taking part in the survey can
e-mail me directly at daniel -dot- shugrue -at- nokia -dot- com
I'll be happy to compile and report the answers.
Thanks and regards,
Daniel
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