Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to kickstart the documentation process and work with others to figure out what documentation means to all stakeholders involved.

The chapter covered the typical process to follow when creating or updating content and what’s involved at each stage. Many of the details vary, depending on your internal structure and processes and the nature of the product or project. However, this chapter presented common advice that almost anyone can follow.

If there’s one takeaway from this chapter, it’s that documentation is almost always in flux and progress. Hopefully, this chapter gave you the skills to keep up with the ongoing process and keep documentation up to date and as useful as possible to readers.

So far, the book has mostly covered principles and theory, which are essential to know as you learn any process in detail. However, as technically minded people, we all know that, while not as important as we might like to...