Rapid Application Development / Advanced Excel Development

Documentation

• If you design for simplicity only very minor additional documentation is needed
• Design and build the user Interface with the Users needs primary, the documentation will automatically be there
• Design and build the business logic parts with the maintainers needs primary, the main documentation will automatically be there, expand as required.
• Integral tests should explicitly clarify intent.
• Reports should contain enough description to be meaningful.
• External documentation is almost always so out of date its worse than useless.
• Excessive documentation is too hard to plod through
• Poorly targeted documentation is pointless
• Working software is more useful than documentation
• Sometimes documentation is important