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- Job Title:
- Manager, Technical Communications
- Company Name:
- Troux Technologies, Inc.
- About Me:
- I am a Technical Communications Manager and Certified Scrum Practitioner. I have over 18 years experience as a professional writer and 10 years experience managing organizations ranging from 3 to 25 individuals.
Mike Wethington's Blog
Austin Writer Group Started
Just a quick note to say that I've started an Austin Texas Writer Group. If your working here in Austin, looking for work in Austin, or are thinking about moving to the 'Live Music Capital of the World' join us for discussion about our community and connect to your fellow Austinites.
Posted on August 8th, 2008 at 11:59am —
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A Day In The Life of An Agile Writer
I've been asked to speak about Technical Communications and Agile to the Austin Agile group. They specifically want to know what it's like (A Day In The Life) to be a Tech Writer in an Agile (Scrum) shop.
I have my experiences and that of a few others but I'm looking to get some different perspectives so I can show the whole picture.
If you have some good (or bad) stories, anecdotes, or experiences to relate, I'd be grateful if you would hop on over here to the… Continue
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 at 4:43pm —
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The Sweet Smell Of Success
My boss just got back from a trip to Europe with the following comments for documentation from a HUGE customer:
• The customer would like more tutorials in the doc. My VP told him we were writing a lot more tutorials and patterning them after the existing one so we’d love their feedback and insight.
• The customer said they’d like to see more “best practices” in the doc such as how to do complex tasks.
The customer is actually interested and willing to talk with the Doc team to specifically ad… Continue
Posted on June 23rd, 2008 at 12:40pm —
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A Brief History Of Me...
I grew up a child of the Great Industrial Depression of the 1970s. My Dad was an industrial plant manager and we'd move into a town just long enough to close the factory (he probably could have been a consultant in that sort of thing if consultants in that sort of thing existed then). When I was in 8th grade, I received a scholarship to a special summer science camp as a child of a Migrant Worker, unfortunately I couldn't go...we moved to Florida a month before the camp...
I attended the Univer… Continue
Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 4:58pm —
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Thanks for connecting with me! We've been Agilatin' for the past year or so, currently in the throes of an 18+-month project with a 25-member global team...a recipe for a challenge, for sure:) Happy to share notes with you whenever. (lisa.dyer@gmail.com and http://twitter.com/lisajoydyer)
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Leah
I enjoyed your presentation at AgileAustin today. I'll let you know how things go with trying to introduce more formal Agile practices to my dev teams.
--Janet
I enjoyed meeting you last week. Hope we can move forward with more discussions about agile and content projects. Seattle is very cold and rainy after Philadelphia--we even had snow in the mountains a couple of nights ago. :-)
Julie