Nothing sucks enthusiasm for a job faster than a frustrating search for information you need to do the job that turns up empty or irrelevant. Even worse is when the information you find is outdated or even lies to you!
Tag: tech documentation
Thoughts on Documentation
When I worked at RIM (Blackberry), we had the luxury of having technical writers on staff. They were brilliant at yanking information out of engineering and organizing it into cohesive sets of documentation. Not all companies or departments can afford a good technical writers on staff, so we all need to pitch in and do it. What constitutes good technical writing?
Checklists and Runbooks
We’ve been flying planes much longer than we’ve been running systems in production, so it might be instructive to learn what we can from our fellow aviators.. Continue reading “Checklists and Runbooks”