Whose book is this, anyway? (formerly Employee experience dilemma ...)

Subject: Whose book is this, anyway? (formerly Employee experience dilemma ...)
From: "Crockett, Walter" <Walter_Crockett -at- bmc -dot- com>
To: "'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 07:57:17 -0500

If you want to make a lifelong enemy, continue to horn in on Lisa's
project. It's her book, not yours, and even though she should never have
been assigned to write a user's guide from scratch, she's got it and you
don't.
Don't go over her head. If she's not absolutely paranoid already,
she will be by the time you get through talking to her boss about how she
should have been a junior writer instead.
Offer her style guides, offer her any help or support she wants to
request, then leave the requesting up to her. Yes, you may have to spend a
lot of time bringing her up to speed, but you'll probably learn a thing or
two along the way. The sign of a really healthy tech doc group is that
everyone is willing to help everyone else ... when asked.
Above all remember, and convey to her: it's Lisa's book.




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