Re: Planning modular help for software packages

[Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

It is PLANNING for modular help materials.  And if you
have properly chunked (i.e., partitioned)it, it will
lead to very modular help.  

Bill, how do you plan for modular help?

Tony Markos

--- Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> That's not modular Help organization. You may have
> chunked down the
> topics, but the content isn't modular just because
> you chunk it down.
> 
> On 2/28/06, Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> > My approach would be:
> >
> > Abstract out of the existing product the essential
> > end-user goals accomplished .  Decompose the goals
> > into tasks.  Maybe sub-tasks also.  Presto -
> modular
> > help organization.
> 
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