Standardizing a Chaotic Style Guide for a 50-Person Engineering Team
Eliminated "Tone Inconsistency" across 1,000+ pages of technical documentation.
Solving editorial problems using engineering-inspired systems thinking.
The Story
How this challenge was approached and solved
Our technical documentation was in a state of chaos, with 50 different engineers writing in 50 different styles. This lack of consistency created integration friction, as developers couldn't fully trust the reliability of the guides. I knew a simple list of rules wouldn't work for this team; I had to treat the style guide as a system architecture challenge.
I developed a modular writing framework that defined three atomic units for every document: the constraint, the implementation, and the verification. To ensure adoption, I built a custom CLI tool that linted Markdown files for logic density rather than just grammar.
This approach dropped developer support tickets by 30% in the first quarter and increased the team's time-to-publish by 20% by removing the cognitive load of formatting decisions.
Focus Areas
Tools & Technologies