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Subject:RE: Being Resourceful From:"SHIELDS,SUSAN (HP-FtCollins,ex1)" <susan_shields2 -at- hp -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:02:21 -0700
Anne says:
> I get most of my information about stuff like this in hallway meetings.
Sharon Burton-Hardin says:
> ...we were all in different buildings. Proximity is so important.
Jane Carnall says
| This is why I think that it's always a good move for the technical writer
| (whatever team they're nominally part of) to be sitting where the
developers
| are sitting.
|<SNIP>
| Speaking from sad experience (the worst documentation project I was ever
| involved with was when I was in a different *building* from the rest of
the
| development team).
While I agree that proximity is important, it's not always possible. But I
think it *is* possible to succeed (even without great strain and pain) when
the working conditions aren't optimal. I'm currently working with project
teams who are not only in different buildings, we're in three different
countries, in three different times zones (I think that's all), and on two
different continents. Scheduling conference calls when everyone is awake is
a challenge. But it works.
I'd rather we were all in the same spot because I usually get the most
interesting news in hallway meetings and over the cube wall. But with the
help of the telephone, the internet, email, and the occasional airplane, we
make it work -- and it's not a terrible experience. It takes some
adjustment, but it works.
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