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Re: ratio of tech writers to developers at your company?
Subject:Re: ratio of tech writers to developers at your company? From:Me Too <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:35:47 -0800 (PST)
Primary industry - financial software development. 1
tech writer to 49 developers. The figure for
"developers" includes qa testers, dba's, configuration
managers, and business analysts, on the grounds that
they have input on how the finished software is
written.
--- Tom Johnson <thj -at- tampabay -dot- rr -dot- com> wrote:
> We are gathering statistics about the ratio of
> technical writers to software
> developers. Could you please share any information
> you have on the number of
> tech writers your company has versus the number of
> developers? We'd also
> appreciate it if you could let us know your primary
> industry, such as
> financial, medical, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom H. Johnson
>
>
>
>
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