The tighter your budget, the worse the effects of false economies. People who are used to getting great development tools such as Eclipse and Git for free commonly make the false assumption that there are similar free tools for documentation. It's part of the tech writer's role at a small startup to educate management about this.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Craig, Alison <[email protected]> wrote: > "To evaluate what's cheap, you need to look at total cost of ownership..." In > a perfect world, that's true, but the original post began "I work for a small > startup..." > > My experience in the "small startup" world is that you need to deal with the > attitude that the person the company already pays is cheaper than any tool > you have to go out and buy with *additional* money. This is, of course, a > false economy. But employees don't control the purse strings so they have to > work within the employer's reality. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
