Conference on Agile documentation

The Gov.uk GDS team is organising a one day, free of charge conference in December, where speakers will discuss techniques for writing documentation in an Agile environment, and how to make your content Agile: Tips to writing continuous documentation, ensuring it stays up to date. Tips to getting the development team to value documentation. Knowledge of the tools… Read more »

Achieving human parity in conversational speech recognition has further to go

Microsoft is in the news for claiming its artificial intelligence (AI) technology can now recognize conversational speech slightly better than humans who do so professionally. Its technology now has an error rate of 5.9%, which it claims is the same as a trained transcriptionist. That equates to roughly one error every 20 words. So does this mean the… Read more »

Reviewing and Editing Technical Documents Course – Update

We’ve started work on the next course to be added to the WriteLessons bundle of online training courses – “Reviewing and Editing Technical Documents”. In this situation, we may try an experiment and release each module as it is completed, rather than publish all the modules in one go. The modules will be: revising, editing, copy… Read more »

New classroom-based API documentation training course

Last month, we were asked  by a client to deliver our API documentation course to their team as a classroom course. Following on from that, we are now able to offer this one-day course to other companies, in this manner. The course currently varies from our online API documentation course. It includes more content on… Read more »