DITA

DITA for Managers

Front Runner courses are available online, on-site, at your place of business or at our Front Runner location.

Please note that Front Runner does not provide public courses. As needs vary from client to client, we focus on meeting those specific needs.

Our clients prefer either one-on-one customized or team training.

We offer the option of choosing the topics clients need to get the job done. This ensures greater success, once the client is back in the trenches, using the software.

Reasonably priced rates are available for team training.

If you are interested in courses not listed, please ask. We have the resources to teach more products than are listed on our training pages.

Overview:

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, managing, and publishing your organization's technical content. DITA was designed to meet the evolving needs of organizations in the face of today's business requirements - for managing and publishing content for multiple products, multiple audiences, and multiple output formats

This course for engineering managers, project managers, training managers, documentation managers, and other managers teaches participates how to use DITA to improve customer allegiance, speed time to market, and reduce development, documentation, training, support, and production costs.

Delivery: Instructor-led, hands-on delivery either online, on-site at your place of business or at Front Runner. Our custom training meets your needs.

Duration: 3 Days

Prerequisites:

XML
Essentials

or familiarity with XML concepts and syntax.

Further Learning:

DITA
DITA for Writers and Editors
DITA
DITA for Information Architects

Objectives:

Upon successful completion attendees will be able to:

Understand the benefits of DITA
Understand key DITA concepts: structured content, topics, maps, specializations
Understand the process of creating, managing, and updating DITA stuctured content
Understand the purpose of DITA content creation, managing, and publishing tools
Understand the roles performed by the human resources in DITA-based processes
Understand how DITA structured content facilitates existing business processes
Identify business process wastes generated by unstructured content
Calculate return on investment realized by migrating to DITA--structured content
Identify gaps in existing resources, tools, and infrastructure
Plan for migrating to DITA
Identify key performance indicators for DITA-based content development processes
Locate resources for DITA standards, tools, and expertise