Tech Pubs reporting structure

[bphuettner -at- WSICORP -dot- COM]

     Bob Boeri asked about the organizational reporting structures of
     technical publishing groups.  My response:

     Hey - I was going to ask that!  No kidding, it came up just this
     morning.  Here's my situation:  I was hired three years ago as the
     first full time tech writer, reporting to the V.P. of Sales and
     Marketing.  Then one of the product marketing managers was promoted to
     a new position between me (the writer) and the V.P., essentially
     limiting the products I worked on.  Eventually, we hired a second
     writer to report to a different product marketing manager.  Now, we
     have a new V.P. of Product Development, and it appears likely that the
     two writers will be transferred to somewhere in his group of
     programmers and QA people.  We hope that he will at least keep the
     writers in one group but no one knows just yet.  I'd like to be
     prepared with statistics or suggestions for the new organization in
     case they ask me (or in case I accidentally bring it up in casual
     conversation).

     Brenda Huettner
     bphuettner -at- wsicorp -dot- com