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Agile documentation with uScrum

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Joaquim BaptistaAuthors Info & Claims

SIGDOC '08: Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

Pages 275 - 276

https://doi.org/10.1145/1456536.1456596

Published: 22 September 2008 Publication History

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uScrum (uncertainty Scrum) is an agile process developed by a small team at Altitude Software to manage the process of writing user documentation. uScrum manages uncertainty and the unknown, allowing writers to quickly react to changing conditions. uScrum uses orders of ignorance to understand the difficulty of tasks, allowing the team to effectively prioritize regular work together with difficult creative work. uScrum overbooks writers on iterative cycles called sprints, then lets the writers micro-manage their tasks to overcome obstacles. After each sprint the team decides what to publish and whether to proceed with unfinished work.

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P. G. Armour. The laws of software process. Communications of the ACM, 44(1):15--17, January 2001.

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Baptista JCosta CAparicio M(2014)20 years of technical writing at altitude softwareProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication10.1145/2618168.2618197(166-172)Online publication date: 16-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2618168.2618197
McNely BGestwicki PBurke AGelms BZachry MSpinuzzi C(2012)Articulating everyday actionsProceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication10.1145/2379057.2379076(95-104)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2012
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Baptista JCosta CProtopsaltis A(2010)The birth of a company-wide wikiProceedings of the Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication10.1145/1936755.1936758(7-10)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1936755.1936758

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Agile documentation with uScrum
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Project management techniques

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SIGDOC '08: Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

September 2008

303 pages

ISBN:9781605580838

DOI:10.1145/1456536

General Chairs:
Henrique O'Neill
ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal
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Manuela Aparicio
ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal
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Program Chairs:
Carlos J. Costa
ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal
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Aristidis Protopsaltis
City University, London, UK

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Baptista JCosta CAparicio M(2014)20 years of technical writing at altitude softwareProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication10.1145/2618168.2618197(166-172)Online publication date: 16-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2618168.2618197
McNely BGestwicki PBurke AGelms BZachry MSpinuzzi C(2012)Articulating everyday actionsProceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication10.1145/2379057.2379076(95-104)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2379057.2379076
Baptista JCosta CProtopsaltis A(2010)The birth of a company-wide wikiProceedings of the Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication10.1145/1936755.1936758(7-10)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1936755.1936758

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