Technical writing with Continuous Integration and docs-as-code
I’m thoroughly enjoying the new Rockley Blog at http://rockley.com/blog/. I’m so glad Steve Manning and Ann Rockley are blogging, especially about wikis. I appreciated Steve’s post “Wikis for Documentation” especially where he says that the delivery side is the weak point still. Agreed, but I have seen pockets of improvement there and need to be […]
Does working in an Agile development environment change the documentation plan, or user information plan? For many writers, the purpose of a doc plan is to inform the stakeholders what you (or your team) intends to deliver for docs for a particular product release and when you will meet key milestones. Here’s an outline of […]
Our tech pubs group enjoyed Scott W. Ambler’s “Calculating Documentation Cruft” article in Dr. Dobb’s Journal related to Agile methods and documentation. We had some fun in an email thread and I’d like to capture some of our discussion here. Scott cleverly turns CRUFT (a geek term that either combines crust with fluff or refers […]