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1. Documentation Review: Get It Done! 1.About Today’s Session2.“Tops and Flops” Game3.“Version Madness” Game4.“Open vs. Structure Collaboration” Game5.Take-Away and Demo: The TPS Reports Case

2. What are we talking about today? Today’s session is about: Technical documentation review Optimal collaboration Why is it important? Agilewords research shows optimal collaboration leads to better documentation review: Qualitatively: Less frustrations, better review Quantitatively: Docs get reviewed 50% faster What are our objectives today? Share experiences and learn about the way we collaborate Experience collaboration best practices Have fun !

3. Documentation Review: Get It Done! 1.About Today’s Session 2.“Tops and Flops” Game 3.“Version Madness” Game 4.“Open vs. Structured Collaboration” Game 5.Take-Away and Demo: The TPS Reports Case

4. Share your reviewing success story: Why is it your favorite? How did you communicate with people? Who coordinated feedback? How? Share your worst time waster during review: I have to chase people around for feedback via email I get feedback in many different forms and formats I spend too much time keeping track of all the versions circulating

5. Results from workgroups session:

6. Documentation Review: Get It Done! 1.About Today’s Session 2.“Tops and Flops” Game 3.“Version Madness” Game 4.“Open vs. Structured Collaboration” Game 5.Take-Away and Demo: The TPS Reports Case

7. Part 1: Writers gives reviewers their own version Dear Writer, you have two minutes to distribute this document to the reviewers and Subject Matter Experts of your group, and collect their feedback. Part 2: Writers share a central version Dear Writer, you have two minutes to have your team review this document.

8. Results from workgroups session:

9. Documentation Review: Get It Done! 1.About Today’s Session 2.“Tops and Flops” Game 3.“Version Madness” Game 4.“Open vs. Structured Collaboration” Game 5.Take-Away and Demo: The TPS Reports Case

10. Part I: Open collaboration a-la-wiki Dear documentation team and stakeholders, here is a document, feel free to take one, edit and comment, and have it reviewed in two minutes. Part II: Structured collaboration workflow Dear Manager, please mobilize your writers and reviewers and have this document reviewed in two minutes.

11. Results from workgroups session:

12. Documentation Review: Get It Done! 1.About Today’s Session 2.“Tops and Flops” Game 3.“Version Madness” Game 4.“Open vs. Structured Collaboration” Game 5.Take-Away and Demo: The TPS Reports Case

13. Tops and Flops Doc review is at its best when the team is engaged Effective doc review can only be achieved with the right tools Doc review requires a clear process Open vs. Structured Collaboration Reviewing docs requires a structured workflow and defined roles Open collaboration works better for crowd sourcing than project mgt Version Madness Collaboration fails when people work on separate medium Reviewing time is reduced by working on a central document

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