My company has a very large suite of products and I'm the only tech writer.
Software is developed in an agile environment, with some products releasing new
features every 2 weeks. The largest product updates quarterly. I can easily
spend almost a month on its release notes. We are using FrameMak
Can you write the release notes in such a way that the content can be
embedded as an insert into the user guide? Can you automate the production
flow to some extent? Can time consuming tasks like repagination that do not
affect content be hived of to a non-technical assistant? Could you get a
less
Subject: [Framers] Questions about tech docs in an Agile environment (may be
off-topic)
My company has a very large suite of products and I'm the only tech writer.
Software is developed in an agile environment, with some products releasing new
features every 2 weeks. The largest product upd
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My company has a very large suite of products and I'm the only tech writer.
Sof
If there's only one writer and not enough time to do everything,
detailed release notes don't seem like the best choice.
Seems like an opportunity for reuse. I'm a solo tech writer and Paligo
allows me to manage reuse in such a way that I'm more productive.
Flare over RoboHelp. Its FrameMaker imp
he nuts and bolts of their use, overhead, and real returns.
Sometimes the marketing seems to get in the way...
Thanks,
C
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Subject: [Framers] Questions about
Adopting a non-reality-based editorial process is one of the most
common ways of doing Agile wrong. I think that's often based on a
misreading of the part of the Agile manifesto that says, "Working
software over comprehensive documentation." That refers to
developer-written documentation such as sp
I used Confluence Server plus Scroll PDF Exporter and HTML Exporter
plugins for three years (just for authoring, not for hosting docs),
then migrated to Paligo last August.
The big plus of Confluence was that reviews were really easy. The
biggest minus is that Atlassian doesn't fix bugs, so I had
Can you be agile in a heavily regulated industry?
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/compliant-agile-medical-device/
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Thank you again for your thoughtful input!
Pat
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Thank you all for the information! Naturally, there have been developments here
since I asked my quest
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