RE: Responsibility

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

I perform content review slightly different.  For most of my FM content, I
extract data from a set of Excel/Access files. Right now, I'm up to over 20
databases of information. It is these files that I continuously request
review. Most like the review done this way because they can take the data
and manipulate it through SQL queries against real-time data and/or
configurations files. In return, I get a review on a single set of data that
I use to create multiple subsets of content throughout the documentation.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
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"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream
of things that never were, and ask why not?"
-----Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign


> What you're talking about here is butt coverage. And I ain't talking
> about capri pants. When I send out a document to development 
> for review
> (and I endeavour to ensure there's time in the development 
> schedule for
> reviewing docs), I include a disclaimer, which reads something like
> this:
> 
> Please review the following document for technical accuracy and send
> your comments to us by <date x>. If you cannot review this document by
> <date x>, please notify us as soon as possible. If we don't hear from
> you by <date x>, the document will be assumed to be 100% 
> accurate as is.
> 
> This tends to emphasize to reviewers whose court the 
> responsibility ball
> sits in. Cheers. DB.

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