1

Estimate Resources and Schedule

• From the documentation outlines, determine the amount of work required to create the product documentation.
• Estimate the resources required to complete the work.
• Determine what resources are available to complete the work.
• Map documentation deliverables to milestones on the iteration plan.
• Develop an estimated documentation schedule.

2

Determine Documentation Deliverables

• Choose a release format.  
• Decide on deliverables (work products).  
• Choose documentation template.  
• Create a project style guide and terminology list.

3

Write Documentation Plan

• Provide schedule and resource estimates for the documentation project.
• Summarize the constraints, assumptions, and dependencies for the documentation project.
• Include documentation outlines, along with the planned delivery format, and pointers to documentation templates and the project style guide.

4

Get sign-off on the documentation plan from the team

• Hold a meeting to discuss planned documentation deliverables.
• Send the documentation plan to key project stakeholders.
• Provide a deadline for comments.
• Incorporate review comments and publish final documentation plan to project portal.

Documentation plan complete.

Project style guide is available.