Re: Documentation Quality and Standardization

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

Fundamentally there are two approaches to quality:

1. Strive to meet the needs of the user, and check to ensure that you 
are doing so. (The marketing team is already working on meeting the 
desires of the buyer, which is not the same thing.)

2. Establish a set of standards (or borrow one from somewhere), and show 
that your work meets or exceeds the standards.

It is possible to use approach 2 in the course of fulfilling approach 1. 
  It is also possible to use approach 2 without addressing approach 1 in 
the least.

Why do you (or your organization) want to embark on this mission in the 
first place? Your use of the word "standardization" suggests that your 
goal may be to use approach 2.

punit shrivastava wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have got the opportunity to work towards achieving Documentation Quality
> and Standardization in my documentation team.
> Would someone guide me on the following:
> 
>    - What all we cover in deciding Quality of documentation?
>    - How do we go ahead with it?
> 
> Please note that our organisation already has all other measures (Style
> guides, QA Team and documentation guidelines) in place. The effort is to
> improve the output quality within the team.
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