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What information developers can learn from software developers
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What information developers can learn from software developers

The shift in information development from a narrative to a modular writing style reflects the established shift towards modularization of source code. What can information developers learn from…
Text by Paul Higgins
Controlled language – does my company need it?
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Controlled language – does my company need it?

Controlled languages use basis writing rules to simplify sentence structure. Here is how they work and how your company can benefit from introducing a controlled language.
Text by Uwe Muegge
Comprehensibility as an economic factor
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Comprehensibility as an economic factor

How can you guarantee a clearly understandable user manual? Is it even possible to measure the quality of technical documents or does comprehensibility merely depend on the reader? To answer these…
Text by Angelika Eybe, David Messelken
Change Management – an underestimated success factor
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Change Management – an underestimated success factor

Although the creation and translation of technical documents are essential parts of the product lifecycle they still play a subordinate role in most international organizations. Many companies are…
Text by Rob Heemels, Sabine Grosser
More with less: the 80/20 rule of PM
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More with less: the 80/20 rule of PM

Every project manager has probably thought at some point, “If only I had more time, I would be better at my job.” Unfortunately, most of us aren’t lucky enough to be given more time to do our jobs.…
Text by Mark Lammers, Natalia Tsvetkov
Dispelling the myths of machine translation
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Dispelling the myths of machine translation

It is not surprising that myths, half-truths, and misunderstandings abound regarding machine translation: It seems as if the experience most players in the translation field have with this technology…
Text by Uwe Muegge
Quality manuals for quality products
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Quality manuals for quality products

Under the European law, the user manual is an integral part of the product. Faulty instructions or lacking safety information may lead to unforeseen liability claims. Several standards and directives…
Text by Konstantin Anagnostopoulos, Thomas Bilz
Authoring teams become more geographically dispersed
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Authoring teams become more geographically dispersed

Working with people from around the globe has become common practice for both authoring teams and technical documentation professionals. A recent survey conducted by SDL investigated the development…
Text by Sophie Hurst
Multilingualism – a threat or an opportunity?
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Multilingualism – a threat or an opportunity?

The lack of technical vocabulary can cause a language to be left out in the development of IT products. Such languages will thus be hardly found on the internet, which is often seen as a determining…
Text by Marta Grané
 

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