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Re:Encouraging a culture of written communication by dcminter on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:40PM (#23146782)
> I've always wondered if there would be value in teams establishing an internship or low/mid level position for a technical writer to serve as a team librarian.

If I remember rightly, this is actually one of the core ideas in The Mythical Man Month.

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Re:Encouraging a culture of written communication by p_l on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:48AM (#23154583)
There is a librarian in the mythical man-month, and there are documentation writers and secretaries. All crucial to successful team - the librarian AFAIK was more about keeping stock of code (but would also fit with design docs), technical writers were crucial in transforming developer's ramblings into proper documentation, secretaries helped keep everything running smoothly, etc.
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