Accelerated Authoring™ @ Method M

Working on training my own writers in writing as little as possible, and having that little extremely focused on user needs, we developed an in-house course called Bare Bones Communications. 

The syllabus is now posted on the web — and comments are more than welcome.  One of the goals is to help reorient writers moving, or thinking about moving in the future, to DITA or other topic-based authoring approaches.
Katriel

Productivity — when you think about topic-based authoring, think of the productivity gains.  Writers work faster and better when presented with a fill-in-the-skeleton, and when they don’t worry about look and feel.

Reuse, consistency, the ability to create custom documents for readers are all big factors in deciding to move to topic-based authoring.  But don’t forget productivity.
Katriel