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Subject:Re: From technical writing to business analysis? From:arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 May 2005 13:14:32 -0400
An interesting aspect of documenting _everything_ internal and external
is that you get a ground-up perspective of how the whole company's
"machine" works. This permits us lowly (in the eyes of the corporate
veeps) writers to analyze the structure and provide best practices and
other organizational improvements. I've been involved in this for
almost as long as I've been producing documentation. Although business
analysis is a separate field, I think it is a sister to TW in that it
relies on the tacit information we collect on a regular basis.
My 2 (non-)sense worth.
Arroxane
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From: Mehta, Sona <mehtas -at- visa -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:22:53 +0100
Subject: From technical writing to business analysis?
HI All,
All this talk about developers and technical authors has made me think
about my
role here, in my current position I see myself slowly drifting from
being a
technical author (e.g. writing user manual and online help for a
system) to
being a business analyst (e.g. requirements gathering, gap analysis,
helping
with use cases etc). I was wondering if there are many of you out there
who have
had a similar transition. Do you think this is a natural progression? I
was
hoping to get some pros and cons of such a move.
I must admit I do enjoy doing analysis stuff.
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