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Subject:Re: multiple TWs for a project From:"Anthony Markatos" <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:gyaker -at- csc -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 09 Feb 2000 14:34:49 PST
Gil Yaker asks:
What's it like working on a team of tech writers? Lets say 1, A small team
of 3-5 and 2, a larger team like the type that would work on a highly
formalized project.
Tony Markatos responds:
It depends on how well the project is managed (planned). If the project was
properly partitioned - "chunked" in TW terminology, then things will go
pretty smoothly. (Note: the chunks become the work breakdown structure.)
In properly chunked projects, all procedure to accomplish a given task will
be together. (The end-user will not have to jump around between different
sections of the documentation to accomplish the task.)
In writing a properly chunked document, the TWs will not have to do a lot of
coordinating between themselves. It is in coordinating the different chunks
that major disagreements occur.
Tony Markatos
(tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com)
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