RE: Scoping a DocumentationProject??

[Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Bonnie Gramat stated:

They [developers] create software or software plans,
you document [using their software or plan as your
input]. You cannot "scope" out a documentation project
for something that doesn't exist yet unless you talk
to the developers or look at firm plans for the
software.

Tony Markos responds:

If the TW is working pre-development on, for example,
a requirements spec, it has been my experience that
most often the TW is not simply given a scope
statement with the required degree of rigor.  Frankly
Bonnie, I usually get a disjointed mess called a plan
of some sort and I am charged with creating a
smooth-flowing user-friendly requirement doc.   

To create such a doc in such situations, the TW has to
draw the scope out of the developers.  And, for
larger-scale systems, a fairly rigorous and formal
process seems to be required.  It is this process of
proding the developers (and/or SMEs) that I am asking
about.






		
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