Documentation consumes significant time in a project and is often considered monotonous and boring. However, neglecting this aspect will prove detrimental to your project.
Documentation starts from preparatory steps and extends until go-live. Change management post implementation will call for additional documentation. In an earlier section, we went through the project brief. There are several other areas where documentation needs to be maintained. They need to be visited often. This helps you to notice anomalies and also helps you to identify risks.
Some of the areas where a consultant should maintain documentation are:
- Customer Info: This is your internal document, based on your study of the customer. Refer to earlier chapter (Chapter 2, Preparing for the project) and based on the information gathered from the website, stake holder's goals, nature of business...