Technical Documentation and Process

9

Document Templates

9.1 Introduction

While the documentation requirements of a given company or organization may be unique, a starting point is useful. As such, the following document templates are provided to help readers develop their own templates. It is often useful for a company to draft and standardize on a set of templates, available to all document developers as a way of both speeding the process of preparing documentation and ensuring a consistent look and feel to the documents produced by the organization.

The following templates are provided in this chapter:

•Style guide

•Technical document

•Document log

•Meeting sign-in sheet

•Draft agenda

•Meeting minutes

•Work plan

•Change request

The templates presented here ...