Chapter 6: OTS Sample Documentation

One of the challenging issues relating to OTS projects is their documentation. In many projects, I have seen that documentation becomes less of a priority as the pressure grows on engineering tasks. Drawing up the documentation after engineering tasks had been carried out was not unusual when I first started working on OTS projects in the late 1980s. In certain projects, documentation was only drawn up once the OTS project had been delivered.

Documenting the OTS project will help in delivering a good project, meeting expectations, and identifying issues early enough so that they can be resolved before it becomes a question of fire-fighting. Does this ring a bell?

In the next section of this chapter, we will ...

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