Once people started missing deliverables and having their comp and ratings impacted, documentation shot to 100%.
- Decision doc: It'll be great to have a "Stakeholders" section listing each stake holders' name , and they can add their concerns in that section to start discussion.
- Investigation doc: There should be a "things we tried so far" section listing the actions took to validate each hypothesis, and the outcome of those actions, in timeline order.
- 1:1 meeting note: there's a built-in building block support in Google Docs: https://youtu.be/S1ef5vvMT2k
For decision doc, do you prefer tracking stakeholders comments scattered in multiple places (and also track down the closed comments), or have a single places to read their concerns and address them explicitly as part of the decision making process?
For investigation doc, have you not had the need to hand off to someone else, maybe because you need to go on vacation, or you need to hand off to a colleague in a different time zone? How does the one who took over know what was done for a line "we investigated this hypothesis and it didn't work"? What if the action taken to validate the hypothesis is not comprehensive or the conclusion from the actions is not correct?
donohoe•1d ago
I really appreciate the effort behind this, but they could benefit from a design pass to make them more usable and visually coherent.
Sam_Odio•1d ago
Paul - great work. Was thinking of doing the same. I'd love to collaborate on some sort of shared resource/repo of docs like these (github?) and contribute a few of my own.
pedalpete•1d ago
A shared repo on github would be great! I was wondering....where am I going to bookmark this so I'll remember to go back to it in the future. Though, how many of the people who would benefit most from these docs don't use git?
Though I may copy the docs into a confluence template.
pkoullick92•1d ago