Podcast 129: Your first 90 days as a Documentation Manager

We asked on Social Media: Someone joins as/becomes a manager of technical writing team. What would you advise they do in their first 90-100 days? In this podcast episode, we go through the responses we received.   Transcript This is the Cherryleaf Podcast. Hello and welcome again to the Cherryleaf Podcast I’m Ellis Pratt, one… Read more »

Podcast 127: Creating Playbooks

We look at playbooks. We ask: what are they, and why create them? We also discuss our approach for creating playbooks, and the different ways to publish them.   Transcript: This is the Cherryleaf podcast. Hello and welcome again to the Cherryleaf podcast. We’re back after our August break. I hope you had a great… Read more »

Podcast 126: Retrospectives for documentation projects

In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we look at the value of retrospectives at the end of a documentation project, and how you can run one. Transcript This is the Cherryleaf podcast. Hello and welcome to the Cherryleaf Podcast. We’re going to look at retrospectives in this episode. Although within a documentation project there… Read more »

Podcast 82: Leadership and Communication

In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we look at the importance of communication in leadership. We look at how communication needs to adapt to different contexts. Note: This recording was made before the Coronavirus crisis was fully appreciated.

Lessons from using a bullet journal: track as well as set goals

By Ellis I’m experimenting with using a bullet journal this year, and it’s resulting in some useful ideas for managing and planning technical authoring work. Setting and achieving targets at the start of the year can be difficult. You may end up needing to spend time on immediate, more pressing tasks, and your list of targets… Read more »