TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:Re: Single Sourcing - Myth or Salvation? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:40:15 -0800 (PST)
It is alot of time to devote to something. Howerver, the benefit out
of all of it is that he knows he has 10,000 updated documents which
was probably needed anyway.
So...taking away the time it would have taken to revise 10,000
documents WITHOUT adding the single sourcing dimension, what was the
single sourcing overhead? That's what implementing the conversion
"cost".
Now, remove from that the tremendous daily overhead of maintaining
10,000 documents, thats the process cost.
--- "Gillespie, Stephen (Contractor)"
<Stephen -dot- Gillespie -at- Persnet -dot- Navy -dot- Mil> wrote:
> On March 13, 2002, Bill Hall wrote:
> "The bottom line is that we implemented the SIM system, converted
> (and at
> the
> same time basically rewrote) all the documents ... for a total time
> investment of less than a half hour per document"
>
> Good lord, Bill -are you saying that for your single-sourcing
> project, you
> rewrote all 10,000 documents?! Let's see, doing the math, that's
> 10,000
> times a half-hour, equals 5,000 'half-hours', or 2,500 hours - is
> that correct?
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Check it out! Get some cool freebies when you buy RoboHelp! You'll receive
SnagIt screen capture software and a 10% discount voucher for RoboHelp
Consulting. This special offers expires March 29, 2002.
www.ehelp.com/techwr
---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.
