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"Tony Markos" <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote...
>
> Question out of curiosity:
>
> If you are a Tech Writer who attends developer
> meetings, do you feel it is worth your time?
Yes. These days my meeting time is mostly in product
planning and management, but when doing hands-on
writing our writers are always integrated into the
engineering team.
>As a
> Technical Writer, the primary thing that I need is a
> comprehensive integrated understanding of WHAT the
> software does for the end-user.
This is certainly important, and perhaps the most important,
but not knowing the how and why and the thinking (or the
lack thereof) that goes into it is a handicap to determining
what, and whether or not "what" is what it's supposed to be.
> I have dealt with such in numerous organizations. I
> have, in the main, worked with degreed developers
> from good schools, so I kind of find it hard to
> 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.
I don't know about the nice, open, honest and logical part,
but most development efforts I've been involved in
followed a fairly orderly process, with the exception of
several dot.coms that have left no trace of their existence
in the world except for some labels stuck to the undersides
of surplus Aeron chairs.
Gene Kim-Eng
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