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Knowledge Capture Publishing Workflow



Posted Aug 24, 2017

Roles and Responsibilities

1. We do have 3 groups of engineers with corresponding groups in Zendesk:

  • Candidate - newbies, who joined the team just recently and only able to create DRAFT and reuse existing knowledge.
  • Approver - an experienced engineer who validates DRAFT from the technical point of view and across content standard.
  • Publisher - the most experienced engineer who may publish articles externally.

2. We do have two categories in HC:

  • Knowledge Triage - internal section
  • Public - section available to customers. With User Segments in guide, we allow only Publishers to modify articles in that group

Creation & publish workflow

To create:

We use two templates to create articles:

For technical articles:

  • Symptom
  • Cause
  • Resolution

For how-to articles:

  • Question
  • Answer

All the new articles are going to "Knowledge Triage" section and corresponding tickets are routed to an "Approvers" group by a trigger.

To publish:

1 hour per shift approvers have to spend working with tickets from Approvers group (separate view for agents). When articles reviewed, they put it into "Publishers" group.

1 hours per shift approvers have to spend working with tickets from Publisher group. When the article is published, KCS ticket is solved.

To flag:

Articles that are located in Knowledge Triage section (DRAFTs) have to be fixed by engineers asap, without flagging.

Articles that are located in Public section have to be fixed by publishers asap, without flagging. 

In case not a publisher works with a Public article, he has to "flag" it and write in a comment what needs to be fixed. In that case, the ticket is routed by triggers to Publishers group for review.

Quality

We have a group of coaches in order to verify the quality of the processes & articles.We follow RQI approach. We use PlayVox extension for that. We select a pool of tickets with created/flagged/linked articles and set evaluate them.RQI is a KPI for engineers

Reporting

We track the following:

KBC - knowledge base coverage - how much tickets are solved with existing articles

PR - participation rate - that % of tickets has linked article

TTP - time to publish - % of articles published externally within X hours

KCS reuse per week - the most popular articles with most # of linked tickets. Top articles passed to engineering to verify if the issue is a bug and need to be fixed ASAP.

Also, we are tracking article backlog (is it growing or reducing) and KCS activity per engineer.


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Jennifer Rowe

Zendesk Documentation Team

Anton, this is great! Thanks for sharing details about your workflow!

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Dan Cooper

Community Moderator

This is a great workflow and your metrics are awesome. We did a stint with comments on the article being the “flag” for a bit. We had a slower turnaround on fixing articles then, so we told our team to review comments too for potential flags they should consider. When we fixed the flag, we’d delete the comment.

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Wow, thank you for sharing Andrew! 

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Thanks for sharing your workflow, Anton.

I gotta ask though, how do you track relations between articles and tickets?

Currently, there's no way neither in Insights nor in GoodData reports to easily see which articles have been linked to a ticket when you open it. Or vice versa, when one opens an article and sees all the tickets that have been attached to it. In other words, what tools do you use to properly track KCS reuse?

And how do you then make decisions on choosing which articles should be left as DRAFTS for further reuse and refinement, and which ones should be published? 

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Brett Bowser

Zendesk Community Manager

Hey Grego,

While I can't speak to Anton's workflow, have you had a chance to look into the Content Cues feature available on Guide Enterprise? Content Cues uses machine learning technology and Guide article usage data to help you discover opportunities and tasks that will improve your knowledge base health.

This may not be the exact solution you're looking for but maybe worth digging into.

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