Vancouver BC May 6 - 9, 2008DocTrain WEST 2008

Presenters

Michael Boses, In.vision Research

Presentation: DITA for Business Documents & Beyond Authoring: Rich XML Collaboration with Xpress Author for Microsoft Word & The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint

Michael Boses is Chief Technology Officer of In.vision Research Corporation, and has been designing and implementing enterprise software for 25 years. His experience ranges from highly agile software start-ups like In.vision to lumbering behemoths such as Control Data and Contel. What did he learn from all that?

  • People don’t dislike change; they dislike bad software that forces them to change.
  • If you really listen to the user you can get things pretty close to right the first time.
  • If you think you have a good idea and the programmers don’t say it’s impossible, start over.

Michael’s realistic outlook and absolute dependence on listening to the user have helped him to help others succeed with some of the largest XML initiatives in existence.