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Technical writing with Continuous Integration and docs-as-code

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Initial review of AuthorIT

I’m now writing in an AuthorIT environment. My first learning task is to find out the proper pronunciation, is it Author Eye Tee? Or Author It? Let’s see what wikipedia has to say about AuthorIT. In their article, they consistently refer to the product as Author-it, so I would suppose the second pronunciation I proposed […]

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Writing End-User Documentation in an Agile Development Environment

This article was original published in the June 2007 issue of the CIDM Best Practices Newsletter. It is re-published in its entirety with the permission of the Center for Information Development Management. In this article, we examine an increasingly popular development methodology from the Extreme Programming family—Agile development—and how technical writers can operate successfully in […]

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My persona for topic authoring

Eye-opening look at my own persona – using my job description to write use cases for what we’ll look for in a DITA-based workflow for topic authoring In a planning meeting for creating our new topic-oriented workflows and processes as Agile user stories, we created a persona for what my role could be as a […]