Agile the Docs - all day mini-conference


Details
A whole day meetup, organised in collaboration with GDS, to explore the tools, processes and methodologies that teams use to write documentation in an agile environment.
This event is free to attend.
Preliminary agenda:
9:30 - 10:00 | Networking
10:00 - 10.05 | Intro - Trisha Doyle, Head of Content Design at GDS
10.05 - 10.15 | Challenges facing technical writing - Rosalie Marshall, Technical Writer at GDS
10:15 - 10:40 | Writing in agile teams - Andrew Westfold, Senior Technical Writer at Intel Security
10:40 - 11:05 | The Worldpay shift from traditional guides to a web experience – How we drove our content revolution in an Agile environment - Stella Crowhurst, Content Strategy Director at Worldpay
11:05 - 11:25 | Coffee break
11:25 - 11:50 | Whether documentation should be in the definition of done: without doubt the thorniest question for the agile documentalist to wrestle with - Rob Woodgate, Documentation & Knowledge Management Consultant at Companies House
11:50 - 12:15 | Learning Agile from Lean - Ellis Pratt, Director at Cherryleaf
11:50 - 12:15 | TBC
12:40 - 13:50 | Lunch break
13:50 - 14:25 | Lightning talks (5-10 mins - 4 talks) - Emma Hughes, Tech Writer at Lavastorm; David Traylor, Lead Consultant at Authoring House; Kristof Van Tomme, CEO and Co-founder at Pronovix; Ben Hall, Founder at Katacoda; more TBC.
14:25 - 14:50 | Continuous integration and documentation (final title TBC) - Chris Ward, Technical Writer at Contentful
14:50 - 15:15 | Agile documentation and prototyping at HM Revenue & Customs - Lee Hawksworth, Head of Developer Collaboration at HMRC
15:15 - 15:40 | Agile DITA - David Hollis, Technical Author at A&O Consultancy Ltd.
15:40 - 16:05 | Be the agile creator - Ken Davies, Technical Author at Microdec Plc
16:05 - 16:30 | TBC

Agile the Docs - all day mini-conference