Using Documentation to Leverage Our Product - An Engineering Manager's Approach

This 24-minute Open Documentation Hour recording features Simon Fels, an engineering manager at Canonical, sharing valuable insights on leveraging documentation as a strategic tool based on his experience developing and leading Anbox Cloud. Explore how documentation requirements evolved to address specific challenges, and learn about integrating documentation directly into product design processes. The session includes a Q&A segment covering how Simon's documentation perspective has transformed over time, the differences between documentation approaches for closed versus open source products, and strategies for better understanding user needs. Recorded on January 24, 2025, as part of the weekly live sessions hosted by Canonical's Technical Authors team, which welcomes anyone to participate through the Ubuntu Discourse community.