Techwriters quota in an R&D department

["Violaine TRUCK" <Violaine -dot- TRUCK -at- esterel-technologies -dot- com>]

Hi,
I would like to know if there were any research done or any quota available
on how many techwriters "per developper" there are supposed to be?
I heard it is close to be 1 techwriter per 5 or 10 developers. What do you
think?

Based on this "quota" or "research", any consultant or any new hired
techwriter inside a Research & Development department could easily
demonstrate that it is rather hard if not impossible for him/her to
accomplish a good quality job if he/her has to deal ALONE with 30
developpers and hundreds of a dozen of manuals.
In my case, I am supposed to update and manage more than a dozen of manuals
and implement dozen of pages of  Word based contents coming from over 20
developers.
How is that supposed to work? I need facts and arguments.
Thank you very much for your precious feedbacks

Violaine


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