Efficient Technical Documentation in a Continuous Integration Environment

DevOps and Agile evolved as strategies to support the continuous release of software products, rather than the staged waterfall method of a limited number of releases over a set period of time. In this environment, technical writers also need to find a way to adapt efficiently so that they don’t become a bottleneck to releases.

Enabling automation is the key. Repetitive tasks need to be reduced in order for technical documentation to keep up with the speed of operations. This involves determining which tasks a computer can successfully accomplish versus more creative and context-sensitive tasks which are best done by people. It also means that technical content creators need to be selective about what needs to be published for an optimal user experience, and what can wait.

Making time to automate processes will result in faster production timelines in the future, so it is worth spending time on. In this webinar, different strategies are explained that will help you become more efficient in a CI/CD environment whilst also delivering high quality documentation on time.