Book Optimal Documentation (Estonian language edition)

The book Optimal Documentation – Useful, Up-to-Date, and Convenient is a practical handbook for managing IT project documentation.

The book is divided into five parts, offering a step-by-step journey through creating, managing, and updating documentation.

1. Useful

We start by building an understanding—first and foremost within ourselves—that documentation is genuinely useful.

2. Optimal

We choose the necessary documentation based on the size of the project and the needs of the documentation’s target audience. We write the documentation in a way that makes it easy to understand.

3. Up-To-Date

We take a look at our work processes and when we create and update documentation to ensure it is always up to date.

4. Convenient

We make creating, reading, and managing documentation convenient by using structure and the capabilities of available tools.

5. Your documentation

Finally, we’ll talk about how all these principles come together—how to actually apply what you’ve read in this book to your work.

Exercises

Most chapters end with exercises.
These are primarily intended to reinforce your knowledge—you don’t need to repeat them in every new organization, team, or project. However, they do help you put together a documentation guide tailored to your team.