Posts Tagged ‘agile’

Last sprint, first step

{ Posted on Jan 18 2010 by annegentle }
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This week I'm finishing up an Agile sprint. Not just any sprint, though, my last sprint as a technical writer embedded on a sprint team at ASI. I've learned so much there in the last couple of years that I've ...Read More »

Agile Across the Enterprise

{ Posted on Dec 11 2009 by annegentle }
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As a guest post on The Agile Executive blog, I was invited by Israel Gat to describe book sprints as an Agile method for documentation. Here is the beginning of the post and I encourage you to read the rest ...Read More »

Casting a wider net for content

{ Posted on Dec 07 2009 by annegentle }
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I spoke with Rachel Potts, technical communications manager at Red Gate Software this week. They have done an innovative, seamless content combination for their Support Center (red-gate.com/supportcenter) to combine Author-it HTML output with technical support articles. Forums are one click ...Read More »

There’s no crying in Agile!

{ Posted on Nov 11 2009 by annegentle }
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I loved the line, as delivered by Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own, "There's no crying in baseball!" I know there are times when the crying must happen without delay. I don't believe most workplaces actively encourage crying ...Read More »

Corporate collaborative authoring

{ Posted on Sep 24 2009 by annegentle }
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At FLOSS Manuals, we have been using a method called a Book Sprint -  collaborative authoring, one week at a time. In fact, Google's "Summer  of Code" project has sponsored two of these sprints. The latest was  just this month ...Read More »

Advanced wiki techniques – collaboration in authoring

{ Posted on Sep 10 2009 by annegentle }
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Today I gave a presentation remotely to some members of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) called "Climbing the Levels of Collaboration: Or, How to Harness the Power of Crowds (or your Coworkers)." I enjoyed the questions the most. Surprisingly ...Read More »

Structured Wikis and Software Engineering – Documentation Throughout the Process

{ Posted on Nov 04 2008 by annegentle }
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Lisa Dyer and I have co-authored another paper about structured wikis, using DITA as the structure for the wiki. The paper contains specific ideas about using wikis both internally and externally for software engineering processes and software documentation. Our assertion is ...Read More »

STC2008 – Wrap up STC Summit trip report

{ Posted on Jun 09 2008 by annegentle }
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I had a great time in Philly for the STC Summit, and here are some of my takeaways. Collaboration is a huge part of our jobs, whether it's finding others in your company to collaborate with as the two technical writers ...Read More »

Building a DITA-Wiki Hybrid

{ Posted on Apr 17 2008 by annegentle }
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The April 2008 issue of the STC Intercom magazine is dedicated to DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture). I'm pleased that the Building a DITA-Wiki Hybrid article that I co-authored with Lisa Dyer and Michael Priestly is available online for free to ...Read More »

April 16 Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

{ Posted on Apr 09 2008 by annegentle }
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From http://dita.xml.org/book/central-texas-dita-user-group Using DITA Content for Learning Content Development John Hunt, of IBM, will give a presentation regarding the use of DITA for learning content. He's been working on a new Learning and Training Content specialization that will be part of OASIS ...Read More »
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