Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Documentation comes in both before and after development
Documentation
Requirements
System analysis
Design-high and low level
Code
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Internal documentation
Documentation
Operations manual
Training manual
User manual
Marketing collateral
Figure 15.1
Documentation is spread.
use capitals) and others. Picking up such information requires field usage
but it lets you improve the reference documentation by distilling them to
a core practical set. Details can be presented as backup material.
Informational Documentation
All documentation contains information. This category refers to docu-
mentation that covers more of the background information. It could be
made available in the form of marketing literature, product announce-
ments, white papers. Technical persons sometimes tend to dismiss such
“marketing,” which in turn leads to material being published that appears
