Docs leadership: How to become a stronger leader for your team
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Leadership centers on measurable choices: define values (kind, transparent), shift a single-writer workflow into a collaborative one with handoffs and publish-by-others, and pair a high-level docs plan with product planning to estimate effort. Build a roadmap from user journey mapping, review it quarterly, and broadcast it; failure to broadcast at GitHub blocked buy-in. Hire for capabilities not just “writer” roles, sponsor internal moves, use rubrics for take-home exercises, and design slides with Canva.
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