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About the Book
With the ever-growing demand for highly skilled professionals to work in cross-functional teams, it can be difficult navigating the workflow of Agile alone, as Technical Communicators often are. In this book we will explore what you need to know about Agile and highlight the benefits of adopting Agile in your everyday work life.
From being more effective when working with your team, to aligning your technical communication deliverables with your team’s sprint goals. Along the way we will explore how technical communication can open doors into a wide range of opportunities.
The book will also cover Agile best practices along with my own first-hand insights.
Core Concepts
In An Agile Playbook for Technical Communicators, you will learn about the following:
- What Agile is, and the benefits of using it. Along with the pain points that may arise from time to time.
- The basic concepts of Agile.
- Features of a typical Agile workflow.
- How cross-functional teams work in Agile.
- How product and user documentation in Agile differs from the documents required by traditional methods.
- What the Agile Technical Communicator’s role is in Agile.
- Plus, tips on adding value as an “Agile” Technical Communicator.
What if you are not a Technical Communicator or Documentation Specialist?
As the Table of Contents shows, this book does cover many core Agile concepts that anyone new to Agile will find valuable when working with Agile Teams.
About the Author
Luke is a Technical Communication and Information Management graduate (2007). He started his ICT career working in Marine Electronics, before moving to Health IT.
In 2014, he gained his Professional Scrum Master / PSM-1 certification and was entrusted with a role of Release & Agile Practices Manager while working at Unleashed Software. He now works as an Agile Workflow Manager in the banking industry.
Outside work, Luke works alongside the Agile Auckland committee, and writes his own blog on Medium: Agile | Adapt which covers agile, adaptive management and servant leadership insights.
Luke is deeply passionate about upskilling professionals into Agile.