Re: Off-shoring of tech writing

["Rahul Prabhakar" <prabhakar -dot- rahul -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Warren <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>
wrote:

> Usually, of course, someone notices that the turnaround time is getting
> out of hand and suggests that we could improve things by having daily
> telephone conferences as we perform the handoff.  That's a great idea...
> Except that it means one of us is always tired and annoyed because he's
> staying at work a couple hours later than usual to make the call, and
> the other is always tired and annoyed because he's waking up a couple
> hours early to receive the call.  With neither of us at his best during
> those phone calls, we often fail to catch the problems that the calls
> are supposed to solve.


Obviously, conference calls and emails can only go that far in an offshore
working model. Assigning a single point of contact *locally* doesn't hurt
IMHO.

Best,
Rahul Prabhakar
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