Category: project management

Sprint but Iterate: How Product Content Pros Can Adopt/Adapt Agility (Part 2)

Sprint but Iterate: How Product Content Pros Can Adopt/Adapt Agility (Part 2)

Debra Kahn (@dkconsultco)

Sad as it is to say, self-directed, collaborative, and agile product development teams often don’t get content. That is, they don’t really understand where content comes from, how it is best developed, how to work with content creators, what’s required of the team as a whole, and why developing content can sometimes take longer than a 2-week sprint.

So it is often up to content professionals to educate (constantly), adapt (when necessary) and, above all, speak up about their requirements.

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Sprint but Iterate: How Product Content Pros Can Adopt/Adapt Agility (Part 1)

Sprint but Iterate: How Product Content Pros Can Adopt/Adapt Agility (Part 1)

Debra Kahn (@dkconsultco)

As product teams have adopted Agile development methodologies, product content professionals often find themselves stuck between agility and review cycles.

How can quality product content be developed in two-week sprints? Where do content strategy, content operations, and content standards fit into the constant evolution of software products? Where do the various disciplines within the content continuum fit in? (For example, UI, Help, API, and Services content?)  How can everyone work together to deliver product content that is consistent, useful, accessible – and agile?

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The Ownership Obstacle to Content Strategy and 5 Ways to Handle it

The Ownership Obstacle to Content Strategy and 5 Ways to Handle it

Debra Kahn (@dkconsultco)

The term “ownership obstacle” emerged recently from a brief discussion during a content strategy meetup. Several members of the group agreed that it often impedes the implementation of a content strategy. What is it? More importantly, what can you do about it?

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5 Intersects of Content Strategy and Project Management (Part 5)

5 Intersects of Content Strategy and Project Management (Part 5)

Debra Kahn (@dkconsultco)

The easiest thing to say about measuring the success of a content strategy or a project is to say “measure what is meaningful to your organization.” Makes sense; I wouldn’t want to measure what is not meaningful. Turns out, that’s easy to say but difficult to do.

Nevertheless I persisted. <smile> In fact, coming up with a set of content metrics was part of my job as a Content Strategist at Oracle. I learned a lot during that journey and wanted to share a bit of it here. Read more →

5 Intersects of Content Strategy and Project Management (Part 3)

Debra Kahn (@dkconsultco)

Validating a work plan, even a high-level strategic one, is key to success in the fields of both content strategy and project management. Read more →