RE: The Technical Writer vs. Agile Development Methodologies

["Joe Malin" <jmalin -at- tuvox -dot- com>]

We're going to be doing something like this in our next release cycle.

I plan to tackle this from first principles: what does the customer
need, and when?

In the first few cycles, I will probably deliver a TOC for everything, a
terminology list, and whatever online help system I need. I will then
expect a review of whatever I produce, equivalent to the level of QA
that is applied to the software.

Joe


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Subject: The Technical Writer vs. Agile Development Methodologies


Hi all,

Is anyone else out there struggling with a development team determined
to use Agile Development methodologies? I'm trying to research on what
the ideal role for the tech writer in all of this Agile madness.

In one of our courses, we actually had a trainer say something to the
effect that end-user docs aren't a concern in agile... I know that's not
exactly the best way to say it, but it seems that Agile methodology may
well be suffering with a bias (intentional or not) against the tech
writers who must keep up with all the Agile-ness to create end-user
documentation.

I'm curious who out there has been through this. We're sorting out our
roles here, but it's been a bit of a battle to get it all straight.

Kevin

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