Sunday, September 25, 2011

Chapter 5

I'm having a hard time finding anything to say about the chapter in particular, so I will do something similar to my post about chapter 2 and reference an example from my job.  I'll start by saying that my superiors implemented the procedures we used to make this document, so at the time I was just learning the concepts.  When we were producing the manual for our product, we incorporated many of the structural aspects mentioned in this chapter. We began the document with an overview, as it would be quite large and hard to navigate otherwise.  The chunking of our manual was quite easy to accomplish as our product is compartmentalized by design.  We simply wrote the chunks about each facet of our program.  The sequencing we used was most like that of spacial sequencing, we sort of iterated through the facets of our program, in the order the user would encounter them (had they been using it properly).  Overall, I was very proud of our work.  Most people working on the project had never written a large technical document, including myself, and it was a tremendous learning experience.

No comments:

Post a Comment