This blog is sequel to the last blog, Are Technical Writers Engineers? It is a continuation of the situation where some friends/neighbours ask me what I do, then I tell them I’m a technical writer, blank look, explanation follows with the example of a refrigerator manual. I quote from my previous blog “My favorite ...
An in-house practice session for Agile Training was conducted by Write Concept on Saturday, 5th June, 2010. The workshop aimed at giving us an overview of Agile methodology so that by the end of the session all of us have a basic understanding of the same. The day-long session was highly interactive and focused on the...
My first documentation project was on a product based on business intelligence domain. The lessons that I learned from this project are as follows: 1. Creating a template: Think of all the styles that would be needed in the document. Write down the styles and see that they are created if not already ...
Creating an Installation Guide for a product on a Linux platform was an interesting experience for us. The project was challenging but knowledge-filled and fun to work on. During the project we learnt some key lessons that are required to develop a technical documentation (in MS Word) for a Linux based product. What ...
