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Surviving as Information Experience Designers in a Continuous Development World
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<p>Tana Franko, two-time speaker at the Write The Docs NA conference, will preview her upcoming talk to the Writers UA conference in October. Here's her abstract:</p> <p><br>****************</p> <p><br>“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams</p> <p>Technical communicators are increasingly called upon to use design thinking to stay competitive in the corporate landscape of the information age.</p> <p>Discover how we experimented with, designed, and implemented Agile processes within our extended writing team:</p> <p>Gathering and utilizing metrics in a continually changing landscape.Marketing your job function within the larger team – why and how?Achieving balance in a continually changing environment.</p> <p>Our major challenge was to build a new help knowledge base for cloud services under continuous development.</p> <p>All of the writers on the team came from waterfall projects. We support multiple development teams, all using different sets of tools.</p> <p>**********</p> <p>Tana's bio:</p> <p>Tana Franko works with an international team of technical writers directly supporting Cisco Spark, a recent Cisco Systems innovation to facilitate collaboration. Her areas of expertise and interest include technical writing, user assistance, and quality assurance. Her passion is designing effective user-centered communications. Tana draws on 17 years of directly related experience with Cisco Systems.</p> <p>***********</p> <p>As before, you should be able to get to the 5th floor just before 6pm. We'll eat, drink, and network until about 6:30, when we'll get started.</p> |
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2016-09-13 18:00:00 -0700 |
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Surviving as Information Experience Designers in a Continuous Development World |
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http://www.meetup.com/Write-The-Docs-PDX/events/233373745/ |
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