Along the way, a variety of research papers and presentations build consensus, explore alternatives, and lay the foundation of future marketing. Unfortunately, companies often fail to budget for documentation. The result is duplicated effort, wasted effort, over-priced translations and confused users. When you see applications with misnamed labels, useless functions and complex operation, you're looking at a failure of specifications. This critical step provides the foundation and control required to bring projects in on time and on budget.
Specifications establish a conceptual framework for project.
They define the scope, list the goals, set the standards, and describe the outcome. If your team lacks the expertise or the time to develop specs for your projects, consider outsourcing that function to a seasoned writer like me. Every publication project should begin with a documentation specification. This report analyzes the challenges and details costs, media, personnel, timelines. It may even include samples of the documentation elements, such as pages from the manual and topics from the help system.