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Re: Ratio of Programmers (or Manuals) to Writers in Software Documentation
Subject:Re: Ratio of Programmers (or Manuals) to Writers in Software Documentation From:Howard <howardg -at- SAVVY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 30 Mar 1995 20:55:25 -0500
On Thu, 30 Mar 1995, Tamara Peters wrote:
> We are trying to appropriately staff a software development group with
> writers. One manager wants to know what an "average" ratio of writers to
> programmers would be. The software has a history of being under-documented
> for quite a few years, and is undergoing the transition from character-based
> and proprietary to GUI and open systems.
> Can anyone offer personal experience or references to research in this area?
> Thanks!!
In my current shop there are about 40 coders and lil old me. In my last
shop there were about 100 coders and 2 of us twirlers. Current shop is a
commercial development environment and the last gig was a corporate HQ
of an insurance company. Be interesting to see if 40 or 50 to 1 is "average."
