Can software developers and technical communicators write documentation together?

May 27, 2024

parson supported the Digital Industries, Factory Automation and Information Management division at Siemens in establishing a standardized authoring process.

In the future, documentation from software development and technical communication can be processed together. The process allows software developers to stay in their familiar development environment and use Git repositories as a central integration system. Standardized metadata and a common release and publication process improve the quality and delivery of documentation.

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