Archive - May 16, 2013
Michael Priestley
DITA metrics at the CMS/DITA 2013 conference
Blog entry: Submitted by Michael Priestley on Thu, 2013-05-16 18:15. Last updated on Thu, 2013-05-16 18:20.
I attended several sessions on metrics, including the conference keynote, and a few key points jumped out at me:
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The wrong metrics can be worse than no metrics at all
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Metrics should be stable over time to allow for tracking
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Start by figuring out what decisions you need to make – then gather the metrics you need to make that decision
eNG1Ne
leaps and bounds … with the occasional stumble
Blog entry: Submitted by eNG1Ne on Thu, 2013-05-16 07:59. Last updated on Thu, 2013-05-16 07:59.
Showed the results so far to one of the developers yesterday, output to multi-page xhtml, and came away with some useful questions. Selecting the <prolog> and then Help > Show content model – I'm so pleased with my choice of editor – pointed me in the direction of prodinfo and reminded me about critdates, and output to Web Help added navigation and docset search …