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What’s Inside This Chapter

This chapter considers additional tactics for working with your SME to gather information, describing:

• developing content with a SME

• getting past tangents

• going through edits with your SME.

At the end of the chapter are three worksheets to further guide your course development and SME relationship.

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One of the most important and distinguishing aspects of technical training is dependence on SMEs. Because technical courses are designed based on the information given from a SME, developers are inherently dependent on the SME (and sometimes ...

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