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??? Document while doing: Gather as much information as you can while you??™re actually doing the
work. It can be notes on a scrap of paper or in a notebook, or better yet, screenshots slapped into
a Word document??”maybe even with a few notes! I??™ve found that no matter how unorganized it
is, documentation gathered during an activity is more useful than clean, organized documentation
written two months later.
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??? Don??™t write the documentation for yourself: Even if you??™ll be the main consumer of the documentation,
imagine you??™re writing it for someone else. Some colleagues insist that all documentation
should be written so a ten-year-old could follow it. I personally think that??™s a little extreme (not
that I think ten-year-olds lack the capacity to restore a database, but I would feel much more
comfortable if someone with a little more IT experience does it). The problem with writing the
documentation for yourself is that you??™ll assume certain steps??”I guarantee it. Those small steps
may throw someone else off completely.
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