I wrote each document from scratch, including the code samples. No other technical writer or editor altered them. I wrote and published each document over a two month period, broken up into two-week sprints. At the same time, I also completed other user stories.
I obtained the new feature information from:
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Confluence design documents
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JIRA Developer, QA, and Product Management epics and user stories
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Development, QA, and Product Management interviews
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Developer source code
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Multiple unit tests of the API on my cloud account
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Multiple tests of the UI on my cloud account
The documents conformed to a Developer Documentation Style Guide I created for my team. They also conformed to a Documentation Department Style Guide, based on the Microsoft Manuel of Style.