Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW

Subject: Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW
From: Margaret Alston <diamondvapor5 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:04:28 -0800 (PST)

Amen brother.
 
the third question I'd ask, is" How do you block in the work of a documenter/tech writer, which is a reiterative process, involves levels of edit (or should), and global  into a process that involves blocking in discrete items into a log, marking off each discrete item as it is done. 
 
God help you if while you are writing an "item, "you notice more needs to be done  on it, or major editing of what is already there needs to be done.. The work of a tech writing PROFESSIONAL is to use your discretion and judgment to pull it all together to lead users to understanding. The more you dig the better your documentation. The more perspectives on the writing (marketing, training, the programmers) the better the documentation. But you can't do that, because your work is meted out in discrete items that are checked off on the backlog when done, for overall "completion" percentages.
 
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From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Subject: Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW
To: "TECHWR-L Writing" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 9:49 AM


My first question when dealing with that stuff was, how do you avoid
tying the tech writer up in hours of brain-numbing discussion of
coding details that are irrelevant to documentation?

My second was, you call that disorganized mess Agile?
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