Re: Antwort: Re: Responsibility, blame, managers, and getting the job done

[jenny_berger -at- fairfieldresidential -dot- com]

It is also somewhat distressing to hear a fellow tech writer advocate for 
an adversarial relationship between tech writers, developers and 
management. That is what I got when I read without emotion your comments 
about how management should order developers to "do their jobs" and pony 
up info to tech writers.   And that's what I still got when I read your 
follow-up comment about making interaction between writers and developers 
"policy." Please elaborate and correct me if I've misinterpreted.

>From my experience, such policies do more harm than good because it tends 
to remove the tech writer's responsibility for content from the equation. 
I know you're not meaning to say that developers should be providing tech 
writers with content, but that's how it ends up being interpreted by both 
developers and tech writers when it becomes "policy." Professionals don't 
like to be micromanaged, and mandating through policy that developers be 
available to tech writers has exactly that effect.


Jenny Berger
Technical Writer
Information Systems
Fairfield Residential





"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
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A final clarification:

I have not said, nor would I ever say, that it is management's job to get
information for technical writers. An unemotional reading of what I have
written will reveal that fact. It is somewhat distressing to see how eager
some people are to distort my very simple statements in an attempt to say 
that
I support wet-nursing, molly-coddling, and other assorted strange 
behaviors.


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