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What Agile Brings to the Company…and to Documentation

An Agile environment offers many benefits (and challenges) to the company, to the technical writers, and to end-users. It is, without doubt, a challenge in and of itself because each sprint, each chunk of time between deliverables is much shorter than in a standard, non-Agile development cycle. Where once we planned 6-8 months ahead (and sometimes even longer), now we speak in intervals of two weeks to four weeks. We don't speak of dozens of new features, but…

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December 3, 2014
Agile

Scrum Resources

Over the last few months as we have watched one of our clients move to Agile, we've been asked by various project and product managers to help them figure out how documentation would function within their changing environment - the options were, at all times, relatively simple. In, out, alongside, after.... The complicated part was determining not what the options were, but which one would best serve the company and the end-users. During these discussions, we have used…

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November 26, 2014
Agile / Technical Writing

Being agile in an Agile Environment

Another of our clients has decided to move to an Agile development environment. We've worked in this style before but this was one of the first times (if not the first time) that we were there before the environment. It was an interesting experience, watching a not-really-startup company redesign how it develops and releases its product. They brought in an Agile expert to guide them and I enjoyed being in on the training. From the start, it was…

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November 25, 2014
Job Searching

How to Get a Job

Once again, I've chosen to join the JobMob annual guest blogging contest. To be honest, there's something that bothers me about it - as much as they want quality content, ultimately it is all about how much traffic you can drive to their site in a short period of time. So, I'm running an experiment - I want to prove quality and quantity count - so please help me out. The topic I chose was one that is…

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September 1, 2014