A cloud data company recently made what it described as targeted staff cuts, eliminating its entire technical writing and documentation department. According to reports, the Product Managers will take on documentation responsibilities from now on. There may be perfectly sound reasons for this. For example: cost pressures, a need to move faster to market, confidence… Read more »
Category: Technical Documentation
5 reasons why the future of software development is less coding, more documentation
tldr: Software development is evolving rapidly. The industry is moving from manual coding to AI-assisted development and automation. This creates unprecedented documentation needs. Documentation is shifting from a “nice-to-have” to a critical requirement for product success. Here are five reasons why the future of software development is less coding, more documentation. 1. The move towards… Read more »
Should you ever lie or bend the truth in user documentation?
An interesting thread on Twitter from Scott Berkun: I'm increasingly fascinated by this idea. Has anyone seen a designer or organization do something like this? https://t.co/68fgmUaMyG — Scott Berkun (@berkun) October 3, 2019 There are Technical Authors who write “start here”, where there could be more than one place to do it. This is for… Read more »
Managing a project? Need technical writers? Solve that issue today
This is one of our occasional reminders that Cherryleaf offers technical and business writing services. Don’t worry if you don’t have the time or skills to create the documentation in-house. You can use Cherryleaf to create: End-user documentation Online Help Embedded Help Getting started guides Knowledge Bases Quick reference guides Reference manuals Tutorials Screencasts and video… Read more »
Delivering technical documentation via an API
In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we look at delivering technical documentation via an API.