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Subject:Re: Naming a department From:Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:35:55 +1100
On Feb 22, 2010 6:44AM, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> At my new gig it's called "Learning Products," and the writers are officially
> disgnated as "Learning Product Owners."
>
Years ago, I was working on a joint project with
Hewlett-Packard and the technical writers in that
group were called "Learning Products Engineers"
because they said they wouldn't get any respect
from the programmers unless they were called
engineers too!
-- Janice
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