Re: Enchanted Development Organizations

[Greg Holmes <greg -dot- holmes -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Tony Markos wrote:

>If you are a Tech Writer who attends developer
>meetings, do you feel it is worth your time?  As a
>Technical Writer, the primary thing that I need is a
>comprehensive integrated understanding of WHAT the
>software does for the end-user.

Unfortunately ;), yes, they are worth my time. It
may not *feel* like it, when I finally get a useful
(to me) tidbit toward the end of hour two or three,
but there really isn't any better way to fully
understand a development or change, the reasons
(however specious) for the problems and compromises,
etc.

I do curse the "lost" time, but then I realize I'm 
comparing the real world to some idealized one where
neatly packaged information drops into my lap.  But 
in this actual world, I gotta do what I gotta do.

Greg Holmes

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