Re: Off-shoring of tech writing

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

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 12:39 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin <
Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
>
> I find that it does hurt.


Not if you have an in-house development team. In such a scenario, writers
can request their doc manager to assign them a single point of contact from
the *local* development team -- a product manager, an SME, a senior test
engineer, or a lead developer -- anyone who knows about the product inside
out, generally more than you do. Someone who is easily approachable for
project-related queries if required. If your development team is located
overseas, you have to rely on conference calls, emails, remote desktop
sharing, trainings, and other reference material on the Intranet.
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