Tag: documentation
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Team-led growth and synthetic data
Last week, I talked about making a trial/demo environment that let people imagine how software would work for their team. Today I want to explore what kind of data is useful in a team-product demo. Consider setting Because I’m talking to developers and decision-makers in noisy, chaotic, and distracting environments, I prioritize showing the every…
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When you stare into the blank page, it stares back at you
I didn’t write The Great American Novel during the pandemic. I’m good with that. Instead, I worked with an amazing team to write the best book we could on how to do technical writing when you are not a technical writer. I finally believe this book is really real, because look, there are pre-order buttons!…
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Documentation for DevOps: A DevOpsDays Open Space Writeup
I’m borrowing this image from my friends at Chef, because it’s really funny to pretend that it’s possible to just sprinkle on “devops”, something that is about cultural change at every level. At every DevOpsDays I go to (and that’s quite a few), I propose/wrangle/run two open spaces. One is about feature flags/canary launches/hypothesis-driven development,…
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Guest Post: Capital One Developer Experience
I recently got a chance to write a post about API hospitality for the Capital One DevEx blog. It’s always nice to be able to rework a talk into an essay that’s easier for people to refer to.