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Techwhirlers,
Lately, our office has been pondering the question of how to measure a
writer's productivity. Our managers are not writers and they insist on
measuring our productivity in number of pages. My questions include:
1) Do you know of any other easily measurable ways to track productivity?
2) How do you keep track of the time/pages?
3) Do you measure different aspects of a project separately? (Such as
writing original drafts, editing, and entering changes.)
4) What is an acceptable or good amount of time/pages?
If you would like to reply to the group, that is okay with me. I hope it's
an acceptable topic. If you would like to respond to me personally at
lotiki -at- aol -dot- com, I will summarize the information for the group.
Thanks
Kim Andrews
