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No offense intended, but many technical writers manage on time, meets
content objectives and looks professional, along with adherence to
standards. There's no reason that they must be mutually exclusive.
Suzanne Chiles
> This discussion is probably just pushing my "irate manager"
> button, but when I hear it real-time, it's usually coming
> from a bunch of writers sitting around a table arguing over
> formatting instead of getting their hands on product and
> creating content, or worse, holding up the completion of a
> doc set whose product is ready to ship. Sorry, but "on
> time" and "meets content objectives" trumps "looks more
> professional" most every time. Unless the doc looks as
> if it was written by a 6th grade dropout, it ships by
> deadline.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
