Technical writing as a role doesn’t really fit well within an agile development setting. However, that doesn’t mean that technical writers should throw in the towel. Technical writers can learn from their business analyst colleagues some important skills to help them stay relevant in today’s modern development organizations.
My degree is actually in technical writing, and my very first job out of college was documenting software requirements. A couple of job titles and a handful of years later, I was still doing that – just in a more prominent, client-facing role. I am itching to get back to working with functional and business [...]