Chapter 2
The Key Documents
In This Chapter
About documents and why you’ll need at least some
When a document needn’t be a document
Documents for Kick Off and the Planning Stage
Documents for control, including progress reports
Balancing the amount of documentation against the control needs
Chapter 1 contains a warning about not creating a ‘paper mountain’ in your project. However, unless you have a particularly good memory and nobody else will ever need to see any project information, you’re going to have to write some stuff down.
This chapter explains the range of documents you may want to think about for your project. You may not need all of them, but you can use the checklists to think through what you will need, and then how much detail you should go into, which in turn will depend on the control needs of the project. Later chapters in the book contain checklists that will then help you make sure that you’ve thought through everything correctly. Those chapters also include templates ...
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