Writing effective documentation - the Lead Developer Berlin 2019

Writing effective documentation - the Lead Developer Berlin 2019

If you’re interested in learning more about writing good documentation, there are tons of useful things you can read next! In particular, there’s a ton of useful stuff on the Write the Docs website, including videos and the archive of the newsletter.

1. Start with what the reader needs #

2. Write less #

3. Write the outline first and 4. Rubber ducking for docs #

These are techniques I use but I don’t have anything written up about them yet - sorry!

5. Write readably #

6. Fix the problem rather than documenting around it #