Editor's Note Hello and welcome to the Newsletter Edition # 5 As promised in the previous edition, we decided to spice up the newsletter with something new. So, here goes our first “Interview with Industry Leaders” section where you will get a peek into TW leader's thought...

Concept, Task or Reference! - Punit Shrivastava Technical Documentation is about conceptualizing the content rather than just developing the content. It follows specific guidelines to conceptualize the thought process required to create a document. While all the technical writers author a document to follow the common goal...

Technical Writers Scaling to Product Subject Matter Experts - Amol KetkarTechnical Writers can add a huge value to a company's products and services by expanding their horizon, and transform into valuable Subject Matter Experts (SME’s). This is neither applicable to every writer nor is the...

Editor's Note Hello and welcome to the 4th edition of the newsletter,As India entered the 2nd quarter on an extremely shocking and unprecedented COVID surge, the darkest scenes witnessed in the history of our country’s medical infrastructure was the lack of oxygen. The loved ones lost...

How to Use Confluence for Documentation - Komal BeriaDocumentation is an essential part of the Software Development Lifecycle. Earlier, most technical engineers, business analysts, and technical writers used MS Word to document their requirements. However, with time, it became complex and cumbersome as teams from different...

A Non-Techie’s Path to Learning AI and ML - Swati ThackerThe noise cancellation technology that Google Meet introduced recently, or the speech recognition technology that Amazon Alexa keeps getting better with, have always left me wondering about the powerful technology that makes all of this possible....

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Writer Avatars - Maya AgnihotriTechnical writers no longer depend heavily on words alone to deliver their message across but are making good use of audio and video, infographics, illustrations, screen-captures, graphics, and animation via modern tools and interactive technologies available in the market.Writing and communication is...

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Engaging Customers in Agile Documentation - Ravindra DhumaneThe title has been chosen deliberately to suggest a process change in Agile Documentation within the overall Agile software development cycle.Agile Documentation aims at enriching documentation iteratively that starts with a minimal viable draft. The Technical Writers and Customer...