Anyone Can Learn Confluence, Getting the Content Out of People Is the Real Job
You can teach someone the mechanics of a knowledge base in an afternoon. Spaces, page templates, permissions, a sensible folder structure. Within a few weeks, a capable person can build something that looks organised, professional, ready to fill. That’s the easy 20%. The other 80% is getting the actual content out of engineers, SMEs, business […]
Technical Writers Are Paid to Notice What’s Missing
There’s a moment in most documentation jobs where an engineer explains something clearly, completely, in a way that makes total sense. You take notes, you thank them, you go to write it up. Then halfway through the third step you stop. What happens if the user doesn’t have that permission? Nothing in the notes covers […]