Are you stuck with a stupid boss or a boss that makes stupid decisions? Maybe I can help.
In Israel, where there seems to still be a tremendous lack of professional management experience, technical writers are often managed by self-made managers or R&D people with no formal management experience and little or no experience managing technical writers or technical writing teams. What that means is that they might know how to program in X or Y language, or run an Agile process, but they know next to nothing about managing people and even less about how to control their own tempers. There’s no excuse for managers who blow their top and take out their misguided anger on undeserving employees. But unfortunately, it happens all too often. Let me give you some...
But at about 9:30, everything suddenly fell apart. Our weekly staff meeting was interrupted by my sick daughter asking a million questions ranging from how we could be talking into the...
Much to my dismay, documentation is still perceived as a separate entity from the product. R&D budgets for the project rarely include documentation. Instead, it gets tacked on at the end as an afterthought, a necessary evil. I keep rallying against this because I continue to believe that this is a critical product,...
Miriam Lottner, CEO of Tech-Tav, is a “single sorceress” and technical documentation innovator whose professional passion is helping her