RE: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW

["Ed" <hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

I'm not condemning anything. Marguerite supplied two URLs for the curious. I
was curious. I didn't like what I read. 

I was heavily involved in an DITA implementation for a department of 40 here
in NYC. It was a fight the entire way, and I'm not even sure the company's
using DITA anymore. It was a fight to get the correct tools, it was a fight
to get implemented, it was a fight to get people to understand and use it,
and it was a fight to get output that looked even remotely like what we had
before we went that way. Plus, I had to convert and clean up the raw XML
left over from the conversion to get the doc into the new content management
system. So I know a bit of which I speak. 

And as a colleague noted to me on twitter - end users don't care how your
documentation gets done. 
-=Ed.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada [mailto:jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 3:29 PM
> To: Ed
> Cc: Marguerite Krupp; TECHWR-L Writing; Robert Lauriston
> Subject: Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW
> 
> You're going to condem a methodology because of wikipedia?
> 
> OTOH, if you'd tried understanding and using the methodology to do
> complete releases, as I have, you might be talking from a place of
> knowledge instead of from your ,,,,
> 
> Same with DITA...create multiple helps under it and your opinion might
> be worth more than the black and white bits.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Ed <hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > I actually agree with Robert on this one. From the bit I read on
Wikipedia,
> > it sounds like a buzzword-filled methodology forced on a group of people
> > that doesn't solve most people's problems.
> >
> > Kind of like DITA.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> John Posada
> Senior Technical Writer
> NYMetro STC President
> 
> Looking for the next gig.

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