Software Documentation Management Plan Template - Second Edition

Revision 2 of this template provides guidance for developing a Software Documentation Management Plan to address documentation issues and satisfies ISO/IEC 12207:2008, Software life cycle processes (2008) Clause 6.3.6 Information Management Process. It defines in detail over 300 required or suggested documentation required items.

A Software Documentation Management Plan Template meeting the requirements of ISO/IEC 12207:2008 that will aid software engineers, without broad knowledge of software documentation management, to implement this critical process. No expensive training or extensive experience is necessary to use this Template. More and more, documentation management is the tool required by users to ensure the right product is being built and delivered. At the same time, users want assurance the product is being built under well managed and controlled conditions. This Documentation Management Plan Template will provide users with the needed information to understand and approve a provider's documentation process, while giving provider personnel a roadmap to create documents and ensure the documents match the delivered product.

It gives an overview of over 300 documentation types (Plans, Documents and Records) that a typical software project will produce during the life.

This template addresses:

• Documentation processes that are applicable to small, large, critical and non-critical projects
• Document management process information
• Recommended wording, format and approaches for a typical documentation plan.
• Requirements of ISO/IEC 12207:2008
• Documentation managing issues.
• Documentation processes that are relative to manual and automated (computer processes) methods.

This product supports these Software Engineering processes

• Configuration Management
• Documentation
• Life Cycle
• Maintenance And Operation
• Quality
• Verification And Validation

Customers of this product:

• Air Combat
• Army National Guard
• CAE
• CSMI
• Honeywell
• Ingenuity Technologies
• Meta-Fleet
• NGB-AIS-CM
• Ostfold, India
• Paradise-Tech, Abu Dhabi
• Peachtree Settlement Funding
• Pro-Tech.
• Shinogi Qualicaps S.A., Spain
• STS International, Inc.
• Synthesis Systems Engineers, UK
• Triquestra, New Zealand
• Venture Corporation Limited, Singapore
• Wanadoo, France

Note: “International Standards (ISO) define the best of practices for Medical Device and Software firms in producing a quality product. This checklist that SEPT produces will ensure that all of the best of practices are adhered to.”