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Project management documentation

All too often, project managers look at writing the documentation for their projects with the same vim and vigor with which they used to apply to writing thank you cards to their grandmothers. But the truth is, a project worth doing is a project worth documenting. Documenting your plans for a project is essential, but it’s just as important to document what actually happened during the project. This documentation is future historical information: What you write today will help you and others tomorrow. Project management documentation makes a historical record of the experiences — mistakes and successes — from which you’ve learned in your software project. What seems crystal clear in your mind now may not be so clear two years later when it is time to update the software and start the project anew. Think of how much information will be lost if members of your team quit, retire, or transfer to other departments.

February 6th, 2010

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