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Subject:Re: Ratio of writers to pages they maintain From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:36:49 -0800
That's because it's a pretty useless number. The effort
required to produce a 100 page document from scratch
and a similar sized document that reuses information
from other documents makes a page a meaningless
measure of productivity. Not to mention use of things
like automation. Just for laughs, though, I took the page
count of one of our standard product manual, multiplied
by the number of products we released last year and
divided by the number of writers (not including me).
My result: 166,000 pages per writer per year in 2004.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Paul Pehrson" <paulpehrson -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:17 AM
Subject: Ratio of writers to pages they maintain
>
> I am curious to get some feedback from list members about the ratio of
> writers to pages maintained per year in their organizations. (I
> checked the archives, and only found info on writer to
> developer/engineer ratios; I didn't find anything on ratios of writers
> to pages maintained.)
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