Managing Documentation

Managing documentation is a domain that is often neglected in modern project manage­ment — especially in an e-business environment. Many people view documentation as an unnecessary left-over from brick-and-mortar businesses. From their perspective dealing with documentation — often dismissed as `paper’ — is a waste of time and money and no longer useful in an `e-world’. Taking a look at modern work places and office desks gives a different impression: more paper is produced and used than ever before — the lat­est statistics on paper consumption prove this fact. We are still far from the idea of a ‘pa­perless office’, propagated in the early eighties. Moreover, `paper’ is not the only format for documentation — documentation might come also in electronic format.