Re: Estimation of the number of pages to be written per day

[TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> YEEAAA! Management by (business) objectives also works in technical
> communications! Page counts only help to try to scope a project, and then
> used with a grain of salt (or common sense). Page counts shouldn't be a
> measure of productivity. We, as a business community, are obsessed with
> measuring "stuff." It's commonplace to be measuring the wrong thing!

Page count is nothing more than a quantitative tally of what's there
when you're done. You should never use it in planning, scoping, or in
evaluating a writer's performance. Page counts will not tell you if
the content is correct, if it's well-written, if it's what the
customers need, if the process behind the page count worked, or if the
writer had any clue what he/she was doing.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ROBOHELP X5 - SEE THE ALL NEW ROBOHELP X5 IN ACTION!

RoboHelp X5 is a giant leap forward in Help authoring technology, featuring all new Word 2003 support, Content Management, Multi-Author support, PDF and XML support and much more! View an online demo: http://www.macromedia.com/go/techwrldemo

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archiver -at- techwr-l -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Send administrative questions to lisa -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.