Posts Tagged ‘documentation’

A new minimalist principle that John M. Carroll didn’t think of – Increase acquisition speed

In my professional engagements, I’m a huge evangelist for minimalism in technical communication. So much so, that I’ve spent the past 7 months codifying the first publicly available, detailed methodology for authoring in a pure minimalist style. I’ll be officially rolling out this guide (for free to all) in another month. It’s been mostly finished [...]

Google Wave changes everything you know about agile collaboration and technical documentation

Just a few days ago, on Thursday, May 28 at the Day 2 keynote address of Google I/O in San Franciso, Google made history with their 90-minute Google Wave Developer Preview session. Here is a link to the video of that presentation, and in my opinion it will be among the most valuable 90 minutes [...]

Evolutionary documentation

Technical writers who are new to Scrum and agile development often wonder “how do you develop user documentation when you have no comprehensive release plans and design specs?” This post explains the concept of evolutionary documentation.