Well … even though I’m technically out of the “management loop” in our department, I often get called upon to write up the technical explanations of “why we did” or “why we didn’t” or “what happened, and when, and why, and how” because when others do it and I ask pointed questions about the word choices, sequences, grammar and syntax it gets dumped in my lap, anyway. My former boss nearly always had me review or completely write the tech papers from our group … the new boss is probably not going to count on my input quite so much, because I’m due to retire in a couple years, anyway.
And I also get called upon to do a lot of the estimating and number-crunching that we’re called on to do from time to time. I’ve written the estimating program / model that we use to create and justify estimates for projects that will last for years. Very expensive projects, too. Last week I got to create a one-day $12,000,000 “engineer’s estimate” that we’ll have to justify to management for a potential job in South America. Those are always fun. Fortunately, my boss put together the contractor’s side of that, which is more on the order of $60 million. I don’t like those so much.