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Subject:Re: From technical writing to business analysis? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 May 2005 10:31:22 -0700 (PDT)
> 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.
At a previous gig (B&N.com), it got to the point that when a new
person came into the IT group, I would give that person the 30,000
foot overview of the whole part of the company system since I was the
only one who seemed to know it system-wide rather than from the
perspective of a specific system.
The most unnerving presentation I made was when they hired a new VP
of Software Development, a position to whom everyone except the CIO
reported to, including my boss and his boss.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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