RE: What's A TW Got To DO To Get A Job Around Here?!

["Wilcox, Rose (ZB5646)" <Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- pinnaclewest -dot- com>]

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Rose Wilcox [mailto:Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- pinnaclewest -dot- com] said: "I am slowly
learning more about project management; however, they are very clear here
they want me to basically remain as a technical writer.  Doing tech writing
here has ranged from silly little easy projects to complex technical
monstrous documents, from editing and/or merely
proofing, to collating survey results, to writing new documents and help
systems from scratch."
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Rose:

Whatever you learn about project management will come in handy when you get
your next "comples technical monstrous document" project. 
Everything you learn comes in handy sooner or later.
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Thanks Margaret,
Actually I have used project management in technical writing projects
before, having been a lead on some of my contracts.  I even used MS Project
for one of them, but that was in '95 and Project has changed tremendously.
In addition, I think managing tech writing projects varies a bit from other
projects.  One thing I noticed is that my plans were constrained by
dependencies on others' plans much more than the other way around.  
I do agree that almost everything one learns comes in handy eventually,
although learning Pinnacle West's proprietary process may not help me on my
next complex monster of a doc.

Rosie


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