RE: where do docs fit in the development process?

[Scott Wahl <wahl_scott -at- yahoo -dot- ca>]

A big advantage to this approach is that your
documents will much more valuable internally the
earlier you make them available. This is an excellent
opportunity to get people, such as technical support,
to read your documentation as they try to learn about
the new product or technology that is still in
development.

Your company benefits because you are helping transfer
knowledge within R&D and between R&D and other groups;
you benefit because you get early, and often more
substantive, feedback.

At this early stage, people will be grateful for any
reasonably accurate information - they don't care much
about how the document looks.

Scott

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Scott Wahl
Senior Technical Writer
Research in Motion Limited

--- Lisa Wright <liwright -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
> I heartily agree with Andrew and Bruce: writers can
> and preferably
> should be writing ahead of the developers. 
<snip>
> I think writers and documents benefit far more from
> this approach than
> from worrying about the document being *right* the
> first time out. Of
> course, the closer you are to being right, the more
> impressive it is!

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