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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Matthew Helmke
<matthew -at- matthewhelmke -dot- com>wrote:
> This mirrors my experience.
>
> Matthew
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > The comments I usually get from engineers is something along the lines
> of,
> > "you repeated what I told you, but you managed to do it using half as
> many
> > words." I've worked with engineers who could have done as good a job of
> > writing their documents as I could, but just not as fast as I could. And
> > I've NEVER worked with any engineers who actually WANTED to write their
> own
> > documents. My experience with the SMEs I have worked with has been that
> > when they told me it would have been easier for them to write a document
> > themselves than to work with the last writer they had, most of the time
> it
> > turned out that they were right.
> >
> > Gene Kim-Eng
> >
>
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