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Subject:RE: anyone else in the same boat? From:Sanjay Srikonda <SSrikonda -at- invlink -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:03:23 -0500
1. Have you read what the outsourced consultants wrote?
2. Do they conform to a standard?
3. Can you build FROM what exists presently from these consultants?
4. What, in terms of the next month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year does the
COMPANY expect to accomplish, with the software? This will give you some
idea as to what you should expect to produce for them.
The last point is something you'll have to sit down with your manager to
determine. Does the company expect to do more training? Do they expect to
produce a Web version of the software? What has already been written by the
marketing folks about the software? Have you a "brain dump" from the
management staff, programming staff, QA staff regarding what THEY think the
software does?
This is just my .02 (american)
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From: train2 -at- sprynet -dot- com [mailto:train2 -at- sprynet -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:32 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: anyone else in the same boat?
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this:
I was recently hired by a company as a tech writer....
I have no previous experience and this company has no previous experience
with an in-house writer. Anything they needed done was out-sourced to
consultants.
Now, it is my job to figure everything out. They dont really know what to
tell me, other than what they do.
I have no idea where to start. I'm a stranger in a semi-strange land (just
because of all the studying I did). Anyone have any advice??
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