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Subject:RE: Writing Test From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:45:08 -0800 (PST)
Not only that, but it requires skills that have nothing to do with
creating a perfect page of instruction; project management, people
management, financial skills (ROI, etc), computer technologies that
allow you to manage project stuff (databases, etc), conflict
resolution, etc.
--- Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Your right. Bigger projects require the ability to work to higher
> levels of abstraction. Such a person is never going to be able to
> outshine someone who is 99% of the time grounded in the detail.
> Thus the fallacy of writing tests for such projects. (Acutally,
> the project does not have to be that big - more like typical.)
>
> Richard Lewis
>
> John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> > (Note to the Certification Debate Vampires: I have hung
> > a wreath of garlic bulbs around this thread.)
>
> I only hoped that those who are not involved in "big projects"
> understand how many non-writing skills it takes to perform them
> successfuly.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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