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Subject:Re: Validation (Was Artfully is dragging) From:Loryn Jenkins <loryn -at- OZEMAIL -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:26:40 +1000
How do you ensure that the Validator, who isn't an SME, is able
to pick up on all the details that an SME should?
rjl -at- bostech -dot- com wrote:
> Crazy as it sounds, the ideal Validator is a technical communicator,
> not an engineer. A tech communicator is able to look at the data with the
> right amount of distance, is able to view the document in the larger scope
> of all other documentation, and....well, I'm likely preaching the choir
> when I address the idea to this group.
