RE: RE: Help on Coordination between Engineers and Technical Witers

["Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com>]

It depends on the week. I don't attend all of them; other writers go to
other meetings. I'd say in a week I attend about 6-8 project-specific
meetings. Of course then I usually have about 5 other meetings a week, for
everything else I'm involved in. And then one-on-ones with employees and
developers... And hallway conversations... And the "while we're both in the
lunchroom/coffee nook/foyer/wherever" meetings... "Yup. I'd say in a given
week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work." (Office
Space)

"Grazing for information" is not unacceptable where I work. I just choose
not to do it, and I delegate when the meeting count gets too high.

Bill Swallow
wswallow "at" nycap "dot" rr "dot" com 

::: -----Original Message-----
::: How many of these meetings do you have to attend in a week?  
::: My current count is at 15, and I'd guess that most of the other
::: managers have similar loads.  There are some meetings that
::: get our complete attention, beginning to end, and some that
::: don't, and everybody understands that everybody else is doing
::: it.  As I said, there are some companies where this would be
::: perceived as unacceptable, in ours its the only way to get
::: everything on our plates.  Basically, we graze on information
::: like it's a salad bar, take a little bit from every plate.