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Adams Makes the Business Case for Investing in Documentation Projects
When it comes to technical documentation, we hear the far-too familiar lament, that the organization won’t invest in doing right by the documentation department. Mid-level management doesn’t have budget, and the organization’s C-level executives don’t even know the group exists, or if they do, consider it a cost center. However, on the front end of the bell curve, there have been great strides made by those who “just do it” and pave the way for others to follow in their footsteps.
Ann H. Adams is one of those pioneers. She has spent the better part of a decade finding ways to creating content in smarter ways - making the content better, while producing it more efficiently, and with a smaller budget. As a Technical Communication Specialist for Kyocera, Ann deals not only with a wide range of hardware makes and models, but has the added complexity of producing her material in over 30 languages. The localization requirements - language, culture, standards, and so on - provide a veritable arsenal of metrics to demonstrate the ROI of structured documentation. In a multilingual world, where DITA meets XLIFF, Ann’s presentation on Evaluating DITA-Enabled Content Management Systems is a good starting point.
Ann Adams presents Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level at DocTrain West.
