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- Job Title:
- Manager, Fixed Access Networking documentation
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- Alcatel Lucent
- About Me:
- New manager, technical writer for 10 years
8 years user interface documentation for telecommunications network management systems
2 years access telecommunications network device documentation
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The Masters and technical writing?
Within writing departments, if they are large enough, you could probably rank everyone like players are ranked on the PGA tour.
Number of wins (projects delivered on time)
Sand saves (projects rescued)
Greens in regulation (edits per page)
Scoring average (pages per day)
Who's the Tiger Woods of your technical writing world?
Posted on April 12th, 2008 at 4:09pm —
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Small teams rock
The Sunday conference call to get agreement on the software release is going well.
Between people logging in and off the network the issues resulting in the late release have all been contained in two email trails. The trails are now so long, they contain test result data, status of actions items, decision points, and group discussion points.
There is some advantage to this. With fewer people online at the same time, responding at different times of the day, there aren't enough people online t… Continue
Posted on March 16th, 2008 at 4:48pm —
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Working for the weekend
You can tell when someone works on the weekend because they have to. Their emails are sparse, to the point, and often misspelled.
They aren't working for the weekend, they are working because the week bleeds into the weekend; because there is just more work that work hours. There were 16 emails in my inbox this Saturday morning; only two were auto-generated, without associated actions.
Xavier has a good signature in his emails. "Because the world is always on, I'm always here."
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