Re: FW: Everybody's a Reviewer

[Phil Atkinson <phila -at- INTUITIVE -dot- CO -dot- UK>]

In reply to Anonymous:

There is no reason why this shouldn't happen. Your manual should be reviewed by as many different people as possible. Maybe not the whole R&D and QA staff (a gross over-allocation of staff) but by representatives of their groups and by a user representative as well.

Has the manual been reviewed already and if so by whom? If you are ready to publish, one assumes that you have already been through a review process. 

By the way, is it quite good that you finished the manual or is your manual quite good? :-)
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From:   WRONECKI Frederic DG[SMTP:frederic -dot- wronecki -at- FRANCETELECOM -dot- FR]
Sent:   15 October 1996 10:55
To:     TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject:        Re: FW: Everybody's a Reviewer

Anonymous (via Eric) wrote :

> I have just finished writing a manual which is quite good.
> ...
> Now that I am all ready to go to press, the approval board (my boss) has
come up
with a creative idea: The entire R&D and QA staff has to read the entire
book.
> ...
> Can anybody give me some good arguments why this shouldn't happen.

Where are the users in the process ? Shouldn't *they*, rather than "the
entire R&D and QA staff", review the product ?
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Frederic Wronecki
France Telecom, Paris, France
mailto : frederic -dot- wronecki -at- francetelecom -dot- fr
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Phil Atkinson [phila -at- intuitive -dot- co -dot- uk]
Intuitive Systems Limited [http://www.intuitive.co.uk]
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