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title: "New podcast: Unifying Technical Content Sets into a Broader Ecosystem, with Cruce Sanders at [A]"
date: 2020-02-14
description: "You can listen to the podcast on [A] here: The basic question..."
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# New podcast: Unifying Technical Content Sets into a Broader Ecosystem, with Cruce Sanders at [A]

> Cruce Sanders at [[A]](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-with-cruce-sanders-enterprise-versus-agile/simplea.com) recently interviewed me for his podcast series *Towards a Smarter World*. The episode is called [Unifying Technical Content Sets into a Broader Ecosystem](https://simplea.com/Treasury/Podcasts/Technical-Content-Sets-in-a-Broader-Ecosystem), and we chat about some issues I wrote in an earlier article about agile teams and enterprise content strategy.

You can listen to the podcast on [A] here:

[![Podcast with Simple A and Cruce Sanders on agile versus the enterprise](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/crucepodcast-enterprise-and-agile.png)](https://simplea.com/Treasury/Podcasts/Technical-Content-Sets-in-a-Broader-Ecosystem)

The basic question of the post/podcast is how to balance small, independent agile teams with enterprise-wide content strategies. Agile software development seems to favor independent, autonomous teams. In contrast, enterprise content strategy looks to harmonize content across multiple teams and boundaries. In a current software development model where agile dominates as the norm, how do you reconcile larger needs for enterprise content strategy? You can read the article here: [Autonomous Agile Teams and Enterprise Content Strategy: An Impossible Combination?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/agile-teams-and-enterprise-content-strategy/)

We also talk about a host of other issues. You can read a full transcript of the podcast in the [episode details](https://simplea.com/Treasury/Podcasts/Technical-Content-Sets-in-a-Broader-Ecosystem). Here are some questions/topics covered:

- How to achieve an integrated customer experience with so many different, autonomous systems each with their own formats, systems, groups, tools, etc.
- How the role of the tech writer has changed over the last decade, and what’s driving the evolution
- How to get structured content out of Markdown and ways it can be transformed and ingested into a CCMS
- How to assess your documentation’s quality
- How to thrive in the coming years given the rapidly changing landscape