Re: Compare and Contrast Doc Group Performance -- What's a World-Class Doc Group Look Like?

["Edwin Skau" <eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com>]

That reminds me of a riddle that was popular back in school:

"What do virgins have for breakfast?"

Edwin

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:12 AM, John Rosberg <jrosberg -at- interwoven -dot- com>
wrote:

> All
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> I've been given a challenge, and would greatly appreciate your advice,
> assistance, suggestions, and/or commiseration.
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> During a series of conversations with my boss (a remarkably rational,
> non-tech writer VP), he asked a number of questions, all of which boil
> down to the following.
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> "What's the measure of a world-class Tech Pubs department?"
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> He went on to say that he felt we were doing a very credible job,
> especially in light of the expanding requirements/static resources with
> which we live, but impressions don't count for much (especially in an
> engineering environment).
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> We work in a software company, as part of the engineering team. Along
> with Tech Pub and other things, he is also responsible for the QA
> function. He rattled off some QA-type statistics (code coverage, testing
> automation, trends in bugs found/fixed) as good examples of how a QA
> team in Company X might be compared to a QA team in Company Y.
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> I did not put the dreaded term "metrics" in the subject line - I'm not
> looking for way to track our progress against internal goals, nor our
> improvement (or otherwise) compared to our past performance. What I
> would like to be able to do is compare our performance against that of
> another, mythical, world-class software doc team.
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> I'm sure I'm not the first person that's been so tasked, and wiggled out
> of tracking keystrokes per minute, typos per furlong, or doc bugs per
> release.
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> So - anyone have any ideas?
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> Thanks a million
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> John Rosberg
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> Director, Document Development & Localization
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> Interwoven, Inc.
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> Tel: 312-364-2505
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> Cell : 312-952-4683
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> jrosberg -at- interwoven -dot- com
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