The value of information, especially quality and accurate information, is literally “immeasurable”. Why do I say this? It is because quality information helps individuals and organizations immensely. If there is a project that involves, for example, four people: a computer systems architect, a computer programmer, a program tester and a technical writer, it is important that each individual provide accurate information to the project to ensure its viability.

If the architect passes misinformation to the programmer, the coding will be off. If the programmer fails to insert meaningful comments in his or her source code, then the technical writer’s documentation will be off. If the architect and programmer both give false parameters to the program tester, then the testing will be inconclusive, that is, not really be able to measure the real performance of the application.

So, it is better, in the end, to have a simpler schema or set of documents, yet these documents accurately reflect the scope and nature of the project and the information is correct and accurate. It is easy to get pulled into wordiness in your documents, but this is just adding fluff.

Quality information need not contain additional elements. Just stick to the basics and others will be able to read your documents with greater success and clarity due to its inherent quality.

All The Best,

Keith

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