Training
S1000D, MIL-STD & DITA Training Courses
Courses That Build Real Internal Capability
We teach organizations how to work with structured content standards themselves, building real internal capability rather than permanent dependency on outside consultants.
Who It's For
Every Role That Touches Content
Structured content takes a whole team. We build the right depth for each role: the writers who create it, the architects who structure it, the leaders who fund it, and the engineers whose systems feed it.
Technical Writers & Authors
You have to produce content that validates against the standard, on a schedule, in a tool somebody else chose.
How we work with youContent Managers & Architects
You own the information architecture — and the consequences of getting it wrong three years from now.
How we work with youProgram Managers & Leaders
You need to know what a structured content commitment actually costs before you sign up to it.
How we work with youEngineering Teams
Your output feeds technical publications, and the handoff is almost certainly manual.
How we work with you
Curriculum
Courses
Instructor-led programs in the structured content standards we author in every day. Each course pairs a shared foundation with a technical deep dive into the specification and the toolchain.
The international specification for technical publications
S1000D Training
From the data module and the CSDB to business rules, applicability, and publishing. Module 1 gives managers and technical staff a shared foundation; Module 2 takes technical staff into the XML.
View curriculumNAVAIR technical manuals and work packages
MIL-STD-3001 Training
The NAVAIR work package model end to end: classifications, content selection, page-based and IETM presentation, and hands-on authoring against the MIL-STD-3001 DTDs.
View curriculumArmy technical manuals and work packages
MIL-STD-40051 Training
The complete Army TM program: the work package model, TM types and maintenance designations, then deep dives into every functional work package type from troubleshooting and MAC to RPSTL, PMCS, and BDAR.
View curriculumThe Darwin Information Typing Architecture
DITA Training
Information typing, topic-based authoring, maps, specialization, and content reuse strategies. Built per engagement around your content and your toolchain.
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Approach
How We Deliver
Our training program is hands-on and tailored to your specific standard, because structured content only delivers value when the people producing it understand the system they're working in.
Courses run instructor-led, on site or remote, with participant workbooks and exercises built against your standard, your business rules, and your content.
Prefer we take the work on directly? Explore our structured content and technical publishing services, or bring us in to train your team on the same standards we deliver against.
FAQ
Training Questions
Is there an official S1000D certification?
No. S1000D has no governing-body certification for individuals — no exam, no license, no accredited register. Training courses, ours included, can document completion, but a certificate attests attendance, not accreditation, and any offer of an "official S1000D certification" deserves suspicion. Competence in S1000D is demonstrated in the CSDB, and building that working capability is what a course is for.
How is the training delivered?
Instructor-led, on site or remote, with participant workbooks and hands-on exercises built against your standard, your business rules, and your own content — not generic samples. Courses pair a shared foundation module for the whole team with a technical deep dive for the people who will work in the XML.
Can a course be tailored to our program?
That is the default, not an option. Curriculum is assembled per engagement around your standard and issue, your business rules, your toolchain, and your output formats — because the gap that training closes is between your people and your program, not between your people and a textbook.
Who should attend?
Structured content takes a whole team: the writers and authors who produce compliant content, the content managers and architects who design the system, the program managers who fund it and need to know what it costs, and the engineers whose output feeds it. The foundation module is built to give all four the same picture; the technical module goes deep with the first two.
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