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Going Agile in a
Multinational
Work Environment
…and the tool we chose to
implement it: RoboHelp
- 4. About Agile
Agile means being fast, nimble, flexible
• Agile software development means
• Sprints
• Restructuring “chain of command”
• Empowers developers to set/meet
deadlines
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- 5. Introducing the Agile Players
Product Owner – Yertle
Ruler of all they see
Vision makers
Dreamers
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- 6. Introducing the Agile Players
Scrum Master
Stand between Vision and
Reality
Balance wish against
possible
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- 7. Introducing the
Agile Players
Scrum Team
Accept tasks
Commit to meet
deadlines
Merge skills through
knowledge sharing
Succeed or fail as a
team
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- 8. Introducing the Agile Players
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Outside Players
Peripheral Engineers
Tech Support
- 9. About Agile Team Players
Additional Support Players
Peripheral Engineers
Tech Support
Documentation
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- 10. GREAT QUESTION OF THE
DAY?
WHERE DOES
DOCUMENTATION BELONG?
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- 11. Agile Documentation Issues
Sprint members and roles are clearly defined
Documentation?
With the current sprint
Next sprint
Independent of the sprint
With each deployment?
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- 12. Agile in Documentation Means
Regular releases covering new features
Being part of the Sprint team meetings (?)
Constant review of product status
Release Notes – way more often
Feature sets
Fewer per release
Sometimes releases without features at all
Less time for everything…interviewing,
understanding, documenting, reviewing
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- 13. What Agile Meetings Are Critical?
Product Owner
Scope meeting
Pre-planning (what’s supposed to go in)
Planning
Dailies when you have problems
Review (what went in)
Retrospective
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- 14. Taking Agile Global
About the company
Locations
About the teams
Venus, Mars, and Pluto
About the documentation
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- 15. New…All New…
New company name
New logo and colors (branding)
3,000 pages of documentation
New templates
New “About Company”
New copyright statement
New…everything
New, unified documentation tool…
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- 16. Evaluation - Requirements
Strong need for conditional text
Branded vs. non-branded
Print vs. online
Different users (Partner/Customer)
Currently releasable features
Future features (Not-Ready tag)
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- 19. Evaluation - Options
Options included:
LaTeX (used in Germany)
Doxygen (used in Florida)
RoboHelp
AuthorIT
Flare
FrameMaker
Microsoft Word
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- 20. Reasons for Choice
RoboHelp
Solid history
Met the requirements
Interaction with the companies
Industry standard
Easier to find people/users
Engineers liked the interface
Marketing liked the output
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- 21. Steps…
Set up unified corporate image
Set up neutral image for white branding
Create skins/.css/master pages
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- 24. Grab the Release Notes
Be the master
New features
Fixed Items
Known Limitations
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- 25. Agile Basic Recommendations
Be part of the team
Regular meetings with Product Owner
Prepare for meetings in advance
Scope out new features
What needs documentation?
Interface corrections? Error messages?
Seek out reviewers
Work with QA
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- 26. Basic RoboHelp Recommendations
Identify outputs
Define conditional text requirements
Consider interim tags (not_ready, new,
versions, Mars/Venus features)
Review
New > QA
Mars/Venus > Teams
Not ready > Transparent
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- 27. Basic RoboHelp Recommendations
Use Snippets to enable content reuse
Customize an existing skin/create your own
Use fields in footers for easy/automatic
updates
Consider multiple TOCs (print, online, add’l
books)
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