In July 2010, Mark Prisk, UK Minister of State for Business and Enterprise said: As the events of the past two years have made painfully clear, we must leave behind the over reliance on financial services and support a renewal in modern manufacturing, so we are able to grasp the huge opportunities of the low carbon age…. Read more »
Category: team working
Your online grammar reference guide
We’ve added a link on our Web site that will take you to the online grammar reference guide offered by Grammar to Go. Built for business, Grammar to Go is your personal grammar specialist, ready to answer your questions wherever and whenever they arise. It is very popular with professionals who spend their valuable time correcting… Read more »
Managing a documentation project successfully – more jelly and ice cream
This video on simplifying business, using the metaphor of organising a children’s party, made me smile and consider how successful documentation projects are managed. The presenter is suggesting managers need to, in complex systems, give up rigid control from above. Instead, they should watch for organisational patterns, encouraging the good and discouraging the bad. The key to managing a documentation project… Read more »
How do Technical Authoring teams work?
This looks like an interesting event: “The next Cambridge ISTC group meeting will be a discussion about how technical authoring teams work: * how are teams structured (and do all the technical authors in thebusiness work as a team)?* how is work divided between authors?* how do authors work with other people in the business?*… Read more »