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Subject:RE: Where do we belong?? From:"Ehr, Meg" <Meg -dot- Ehr -at- smartworks -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:55:38 -0400
Ramaa Venugopalan asked:
>Can someone tell me, where the Technical Writing Team would fit in a
Software Product Company? In the Product Engineering Team or the Product
Marketing Team
Tech writers in my company are aligned with different departments depending
on the documentation we create. Right now, I'm doing internal documentation
as part of our Integration team. As my boss is also over the support and
customer implementation teams, I also do docs for those groups. Another set
of TWs works in marketing, doing the corporate website and customer-facing
docs. Rumor has it that a third team will be added to development in the
near future. However, none of our tasks is set in stone (I will probably be
working on help and training soon): our company is a startup, and the TW
with the longest tenure has been here since, I believe, September, so we're
still working on our internal structure and exactly how we'll all work
together.
My view: TWs "belong" wherever we need to be to get our particular jobs
done. Although I consult with developers on some of my docs, I *don't*
belong in engineering, because that isn't the focus of most of my docs.
YMMV...
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