Agile for Large Technical Writing Teams

Presentation
Project, Team and Cost Management in Technical Communication

02. November
12:30 - 13:15 PM (CET)
Channel D

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Vendula Ferschmannova
- Red Hat
Ioanna Gkioka
- Red Hat

Technical writing teams make an effort to follow agile principles used by development. In larger organizations, it is even harder because of communication and time zone challenges. However, agile is not a tooling process, it is more about a collaborative mindset.

Takeaways

Adopting agile in the international environment supporting remote technical writers and developers.
Remote collaboration.
Joining Dev/Doc/Test approach – documentation is created at the same time as software development.

Prior knowledge

Agile basics,

Jira basics,

Scrum basics

Speakers

Vendula Ferschmannova

Red Hat

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Biography

Technical communication professional passionate about minimalism, structure, and technical writing in general.

My other area of interest is agile and helping people with their technical writing career.

Ioanna Gkioka

Red Hat

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Passionate with technical writing, support people on what they need in the documentation processes and help them with growing as technical writers.

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