Beyond the Datasheet: Building a Documentation Ecosystem for Modern Embedded Development

  • Use Case
  • Content-Strategie & Informationsarchitektur
  • 10. November
  • 11:30 AM (MEZ) - 12:15 PM (MEZ)
  • C6.1
  • Morten Haaker

    • Microchip
  •  Dipo Ajose-Coker

    Dipo Ajose-Coker

    • RWS Group

Inhalt

For many engineering organizations, the datasheet is still treated as the center of the documentation universe. In reality, users rely on a much wider information landscape. They move across datasheets, user guides, migration notes, reference manuals, online help, tutorials, examples, and support resources as part of one continuous journey.

This session looks at what it means to design documentation as an ecosystem rather than a collection of separate deliverables. Drawing on lessons from a complex embedded and semiconductor environment, it explores how documentation teams can improve findability, trust, and usability across multiple content types and channels.

The presentation will show why structured content, metadata, reuse, and delivery design matter when users need more than a single document to get their work done. It will also examine the organizational shift required to move from document publishing to information architecture at scale. The goal is simple: to help teams create a documentation environment that reflects how engineers actually search, learn, compare, troubleshoot, and make decisions.

Das lernen Sie

Learn how structured content and better content design help documentation teams move beyond isolated outputs toward a connected ecosystem that improves findability, trust, and usability.

Vorkenntnisse

No real prior knowledge required.

Referent:innen

Morten Haaker

  • Microchip
Biografie

Morten has been working with CCMS for 12+ years. He has been involved in all the steps from vendor selection, introduction, implementation, information architecture, team building, third-party relationships, migration, etc. The last years he has managed the Tech pubs teams and documentation process at Microchip. Morten also has previous experience from engineering, product marketing, web sites, etc.

 Dipo Ajose-Coker

Dipo Ajose-Coker

  • RWS Group
Biografie

After relocating to France in 2005, Dipo completed an MA in Multilingual and Multimedia Document Conception at the Université Paris Cité. He has since spent the past 18 years combining his love for language and IT skills in various roles, serving as a DITA expert, technical writer, technical editor, and proof-reader in the Fintech and MedTech device industries.

In 2021, Dipo transitioned into Content Creation and Marketing. Acting as the crucial link between developers and the end users, occupying the sweet spot between expectation and delivery, Dipo represents both the voice of the user and that of the software developer, acting as the quintessential middleman.