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 and comment on it there. One of the Agile Manifesto’s basic balance equations is valuing […]
Twitter and conversation analysis – who’s here?
“Hoosier,” the somewhat odd name for a native from Indiana, may have its roots in conversation. One of the stories is that when a knock from someone at the door rang out, the person inside would ask, “Who’s here?” and the greeting was shortened to “Hoosier?” Since I grew up in northern Indiana, my memories […]
Corporate collaborative authoring
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 for a completely open source video format called Ogg Theora. The sprint got a mention […]