FYI --
Mike McGinnis, Lead Technical Writer at Tridium, will be joining the Boston DITA Users Group this Wednesday to present "A Journey From Docs-as-Code to CCMS: What We Learned and Why We Moved".
Mike writes:
In this session, I'll walk through the real-world story of how our small technical writing team transitioned our DITA content across three very different environments in just under three years: from a long-standing legacy CCMS, to a file-system-based "docs as code" workflow, and ultimately to the enterprise CCMS we use today.
Rather than a tool demo, this talk focuses on the decision-making, tradeoffs, and lessons learned at each stage. I'll share:
A look at each environment we used-our tools, workflows, and what worked (or didn't).
How DITA helped us during each migration-and the unexpected ways it occasionally slowed us down.
The business reasoning behind our moves, including how we built cases for funding and won support from leadership.
The practical insights and "if we could do it over again…" reflections that may help other teams considering similar transitions.
Mike McGinnis leads a technical writing team at Tridium, a software and technology company based in Richmond, Virginia. Over the past 14 years, Tridium has evolved from unstructured documentation to full DITA adoption, working both inside and outside of CCMS platforms to support a broad portfolio of products in the building automation and controls industry.
We can consider this a holiday present to ourselves.
Here is the connection information . . .
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83801120436
Meeting ID: 838 0112 0436
Passcode: 700529
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Stanley Doherty
Consulting Technical Content Developer
Stanley Doherty (Personal)
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