DOCUMAGINEER TM

Like an engineered product, effective documentation is the result of a process that includes collaboration, discovery, design, development, review, and approval. These concepts are really a high-level description of an effective documentation process... Perhaps the most important attribute of effective technical documentation is that it meets a need. Written and verbale instructions have probably been around since people began asking for help. In today's world, we have an expanding variety of communication mediums to pass along and preserve instructions, but it must still meet a need to add value. Whether the need is stated or implied, the purpose of effective documentation is to meet it... Another quality of effective documentation is that it is targeted. For example, you don't expect to receive an owner's guide for a luxury car when all you bought was a toaster. On the other hand, you might flip through the luxury car owner's guide if you're thinking about purchasing it. In that..