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If documentation requirements are resources necessary to create
documentation, what would you call a requirement that you have specific
documents in order to perform a procedure?
For example, you can have a procedure that requires to you have certain
software, certain hardware and a manual. You can organize the requirements
into a bulleted list like so:
What would you recommend as the last entry to make it clear that we aren't
requiring our users to document their processes, but do require them to have
a set of instructions in front of them to perform the procedure?
