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Re: Estimation of the number of pages to be written per day
Subject:Re: Estimation of the number of pages to be written per day From:Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:30:14 -0800 (PST)
Gene:
While I totally agree with you, there is an old TW
saying: "Great technical communications is so simple
and straight forward (and short), they (management)
will wonder what took you so long." Unfortunately,
this is still true with many - or most - managers; and
therefore many a TW, whether he/she admits it or not,
feels compelled to strive for high page counts.
Page count per work period is a terrible
metric for writer productivity because it tends to
encourage the creation of documents with higher page
counts.
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