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Blue in the Face, and Lone Technical Writer - getting things reviewed
Subject:Blue in the Face, and Lone Technical Writer - getting things reviewed From:"Jonathan Stoppi" <stops -at- qualum -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:04:50 +0200
Karen Black points out:
> Then I sent an e-mail to each of these people with a request (or an
> ultimatum, if you like) that if I did NOT hear from that person by a given
> date and time, I would assume that I had their tacit approval for the
> contents and format of the material.
That's the method we use, and by and large it works - but only if the senior
boss that both you and the techies answer to attends documentation review
meetings where boo-boos are pointed out and and the boss gives hell to those
who should have caught them and didn't.
The first time you get a team leader literally scrambling and shuffling his
papers, during a meeting with the Senior VP, over errors that you spotted
and neither he nor any of his minions did over months of iterations - that
tends to be the last time you have problems getting stuff reviewed.
It's fun to watch, too.
- Jonathan Stoppi
stops -at- qualum -dot- com
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