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> If you are a Tech Writer who attends developer
> meetings, do you feel it is worth your time? As a
Absolutely.
> Technical Writer, the primary thing that I need is a
> comprehensive integrated understanding of WHAT the
> software does for the end-user.
>
> However, it has always been my experience that such is
> never talked about at developer meetings. Instead,
> the conversation is inevitably a disjointed discussion
> on HOW the system works. Even though, most often, the
Tell me HOW it works and I'll figure out how it applies to my
audience. In the reverse...it's difficult to figure out how my
audience can do something with the application if I don't know the
application even does it.
> After attending developer meetings, I always have to
> try to abstract an integrated WHAT out of this
> disjointed HOW. This is not a productive excercise.
The alternative is what...for them to hand-feed to you the exact
information you need? That's no fun.
> believe that there are some "special" companies who,
> somehow, have conquered this issue. But I may be
> wrong. Maybe there is a far away land where everyone
> is nice, open, honest, and logical.
It's not the "special" companies that have figured it out how to
present the information correctly...it's that the "special" writers
have figured out what to do with the information that is made
available to them.
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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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