Heidi Waterhouse

Technology leaders face a fundamental challenge: How do you know you’re delivering the right thing to the right person at the right time? Progressive Delivery offers a fresh perspective on this question; bridging the gap between software delivery and business value. Drawing from extensive interviews with industry leaders at GitHub; Adobe; AWS; Disney; and Nike; the authors demonstrate how four key elements—abundance; autonomy; alignment; and automation—create a framework for sustainable product development. This isn’t just another technical manual or transformation playbook. Instead; it provides a lens for measuring your existing products against future standards and expectations. Through detailed case studies; you’ll discover: How to leverage cloud abundance for meaningful experimentation. Ways to enable team autonomy while maintaining coherent direction. Strategies for aligning technical capabilities with business goals. Methods to automate intelligently while preserving control. The authors bring over 60 years of combined experience advising companies on technology adoption; engineering practices; and product strategy. Their insights show how organizations can move beyond traditional development cycles to create personalized experiences that truly serve their users. If you’re responsible for product strategy; engineering; or digital experiences; this book will help you focus your team’s energy efficiently and deliver value that matters to all stakeholders; both within and outside your organization.

Learn to integrate programming with good documentation. This book teaches you the craft of documentation for each step in the software development lifecycle, from understanding your users’ needs to publishing, measuring, and maintaining useful developer documentation.Well-documented projects save time for both developers on the project and users of the software. Projects without adequate documentation suffer from poor developer productivity, project scalability, user adoption, and accessibility. In short: bad documentation kills projects. Docs for Developers demystifies the process of creating great developer documentation, following a team of software developers as they work to launch a new product. At each step along the way, you learn through examples, templates, and principles how to create, measure, and maintain documentation—tools you can adapt to the needs of your own organization. What You'll Learn Create friction logs and perform user research to understand your users’ frustrationsResearch, draft, and write different kinds of documentation, including READMEs, API documentation, tutorials, conceptual content, and release notesPublish and maintain documentation alongside regular code releasesMeasure the success of the content you create through analytics and user feedbackOrganize larger sets of documentation to help users find the right information at the right time Who This Book Is For Ideal for software developers who need to create documentation alongside code, or for technical writers, developer advocates, product managers, and other technical roles that create and contribute to documentation for their products and services.