Design Documents - The Practice of Cloud System Administration - page 282

Exercises
1. What are the primary functions of a design document?
2. List qualities of a good document management system for design documents.
3. Does your organization currently have a standardized design document format? If
not, what would be required to implement it in your organization?
4. Which mandatory processes are part of a design review in your organization?
Which stakeholders are mandatory reviewers or approvers?
5. Describe your organization's equivalent of design documents, and their strengths
and weaknesses when contrasted with the model presented here.
6. Create a design document template for your organization. Show it to coworkers
and get feedback about the format and ways that you can make it easier to use.
7. Write the design for a proposed or existing project using the design document
format.
8. Take an existing document that your organization uses and rewrite it using the
design document format.
9. Use the design document format for something silly or fun—for example, a design
for a company picnic or plans to get rich quick.