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Understanding Complex Software
Workshop Overview
"SUPERDUPER provides a comprehensive infrastructure for application services,
along with object-oriented tools and components for building a three-tier network
security management framework for all platforms including mainframes, UNIX, Linux and Windows.
It includes a powerful X server, an extremely flexible text-based terminal emulator,
a Windows Explorer-based FTP client and more!"
If you are a technical writer, instructional designer, trainer, or marketing person
who needs to explain products like this, then we have the workshop for you!
Looking below the surface
If you're working on a complex software project, you need to understand what's going on
below the user interface. And there's a lot going on down there.
Scratch below the surface of any big system and you quickly find clients and servers,
controls and widgets, middleware and middle-tiers and n-tiers, classes and objects and instances,
methods, properties, functions and procedures, COM and CORBA and ActiveX,
Web services and application services, and yes: UNIX systems even have daemons!
Do you understand all this? Can you hold up your end of a conversation at your workplace?
Or do you need a good workshop to help you understand what the developers and engineers
are talking about?
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At the end of this workshop, you will be able to understand and explain complex multi-component,
multi-platform, multi-everything software either in documentation, marketing materials
or training guides.
The visible components of software
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Note: Understanding Complex Software is a new workshop,
but much of the material is adapted from System Design,
an earlier workshop that Manuel Gordon has presented many times,
including at two international STC Conferences.
Here is a selection of comments on the relevant parts of System Design:
"Excellent! Exactly what I've needed since I became a tech writer in a software environment."
"Packed with useful information. Very well-prepared. Articulately delivered. Just superb!"
"Discussion of buzzwords was very helpful, since so many new ones crop up daily."
"All in all, this was a day well spent. The part about diagrams was
very useful—especially the use cases. This is a good way to look at things."
"Well-paced, level not too deep for me to comprehend, good mix of activities and lectures.
I appreciate the personal workbook as well as the refences to supplemental reading materials."
"Knowledgeable, excellent presenter."
"The presenter's knowledge was impressive. And I appreciate the bibliography."
"Mr. Gordon is very knowledgeable about his subject and was able to
impart this information extremely well—a great teacher!"
"Underscored the importance of the 'technical' in technical writing...
something that we need to be able to do more and more."
"The speaker was interesting and entertaining. The material was well-organized.
The slides were well-prepared. And the workbook allowed for all the scribbling
that anybody could possibly desire."
"I'd take another course from Gordon & Gordon."
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This workshop is not currently scheduled.
To be notified when this workshop is next held, email us at
manuel@gordonandgordon.com.
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Last updated: April 28, 2003 Entire contents |
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