Pragmatic DITA on a Budget
http://pxquim.com/en/Publications_files/sigdoc-2008-dita-personal.pdf

Baptista, Joaquim
ACM SIGDOC
2008

Abstract:

A small documentation team working on a tight budget can now use the tool ecosystem enabled by the DITA standard to create the sophisticated content that previously required long and expensive projects. The author spent just nine person-weeks over three years to replace a custom XML system with a DITA system based on a combination of off-the-shelf software, authoring conventions, and custom scripts.