Tag: documentation
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How Much Detail Should be Documented?
Adding a lot of detail to a technical document can be expensive to create and maintain. Therefore, this is an important issue to get on the table up front. If you have a document that is only going to be used by users and trainers, extensive details should be reduced to a minimum. But if… Read more
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Where Do I Find It Fast?
If you work in Product Support, most days are full of pressure. It seems like everyone in the world needs help. To make things worse, they always need help right now, not tomorrow. It simply can’t wait until later. Must help right now! So, to address the problem you think about the last time you… Read more
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A Note about User Documentation
What is a User? On many occasions, while discussing the term “User” with companies, we hear a lot of interpretations about Users in general. Here is a summary of one interaction: After a half-hour discussion, just about everybody agreed that the definition of a User is “What a User been assigned to DO” with a… Read more