Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing

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J. Bhatti et al.Docs for Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7217-6_2

2. Planning your documentation

Jared Bhatti¹  , Zachary Sarah Corleissen², Jen Lambourne³, David Nunez⁴ and Heidi Waterhouse⁵

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Berkeley, CA, USA

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Victoria, BC, Canada

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Cornwall, UK

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San Francisco, CA, USA

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Mounds View, MN, USA

 

Corg.ly: Creating a plan

Charlotte had spent the previous three weeks researching Corg.ly’s users. She and Ein did a few demos of the product at a local dog park with several interested initial users. She’d gotten to know how they wanted to use Corg.ly, the kinds of products and apps they wanted to build, and what they wanted from the documentation.