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Oct 2018
36m 28s

Skill #11: Surviving in the Dev World

Kate Mueller
About this episode

We all know that successful technical writers are more than writers: they’re designers; they’re knowledge managers; they’re support. However, for technical writers in the dev world, they’re expected to gain new skills, particularly, understanding (and writing) programming languages. 

That’s a challenging next step for technical writers – and understandably so: We can create docs, but introducing programming languages can make technical writers wonder what it really takes to survive in the dev world. 

In this episode, I chat with Michal Skowron and Pawel Kowaluk – technical writers at Guidewire Software in Kraków, Poland – about how you can survive in the dev world, including:

  • the technical writers’ role in a development company
  • how technical writers can gain trust and respect from developers
  • how technical writers can start learning programming languages

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