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Agile Development and Technical Communications
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DITA Maturity Model
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Localization & Globalization for Docs and Help
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Profile
- Job Title:
- Manager, Documentation & Localization
- Company Name:
- F-Secure Corporation
- About Me:
- Previously worked as a Technical Writer and Localization Manager, now heading both documentation and localization at F-Secure Corporation headquarters in Helsinki, Finland.
Mika Pehkonen's Blog
Our virtual team
I had a chat with one of my team members the other day. We were looking at our returned localization kits for that weeks allocation, and noticed that most translators had returned all that we asked for, and in most cases some files that we had not specifically asked to be changed had changes in them. A few years back this would have meant that there was a problem with file handling, translation memory files or with our process. We looked inside the kits, and noticed that our translators had proa… Continue
Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 2:53am —
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The documentation and localization cargo cult
I received some well-earned criticism on my previous blog post on our top 10 improvements, saying that unless you know us and our approach, you might be lead to erroneously believe that we are process, tools and technology centric. So in order to avoid contributing to the localization cargo cult, I will explain our approach to processes and technology.
First, here is what Wikipedia says about Cargo Cults. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult)
The most widely known period of cargo… Continue
Posted on June 10th, 2008 at 8:00am —
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Our top 10 tools and improvements
Today's blog is a Top 10 list of things that have helped us reinvent our own processes from a well-working waterfall model into the extremely well working lean, agile process that we have today. Please note that these are ten of the ones that have made the biggest difference, there are dozens of other improvements that have either contributed to getting to one of these items or support these items.
1. Unique XML IDs for each string in XML files. Changing to XML software string files and… Continue
Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 5:30am —
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Respect for people
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Often when talking about agile and lean, people who are not a part of the scrum teams or in-house development have a preconceived notion that it is just another way of making work quicker and standardized to save a buck. At the worst, people think that they need to do more work on a tighter sche… Continue
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 4:00am —
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Thoughts on documentation and localization quality
One of the more frequent issues that I run into when incorporating a new team or product into a weekly/sprint-level localization and documentation, is the wide variety of quality expectations and definitions. Essentially this is rooted in the definition of when a sprint item 'done', which has systematically been overlooked or is lacking necessary detail for non-development items.
Quite often when measuring documentation quality, the bug reports for the source language version and major language… Continue
Posted on April 11th, 2008 at 7:17am —
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