Managing documentation in a rapid/agile/extreme programming environment

Subject: Managing documentation in a rapid/agile/extreme programming environment
From: Robert_Johnson -at- percussion -dot- com
To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:56:49 -0400

Reviewing the archives, I've found some discussion of creating
documentation in a rapid or agile environment, but nothing about managing
user documentation in such an environment. Our development team is
adopting agile development methods, and I've been asked to explain how we
are going to fit documentation into this process. JoAnn Hackos's book was
great when I needed to develop a documentation model that matched the
waterfall model we used previously, since the Hackos model is itself
essentially a waterfall model. But her concepts don't adapt well to an
agile environment.

Most of what I've been able to find on the web about documentation in
agaile environments is about internal code documentation rather than about
product user documentation. Does anyone who has worked in an
agile/rapid/extreme environment have any recommendations about managing
user documentation in that environment?

Bob Johnson
Documentation Specialist
Percussion Software
Stoneham, MA




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