| Abstract: | The purpose of this article is to discuss documentation and management technique in a software production project. It is claimed that clear and concise documentation is a major contribution to communication between people who are either inside or outside the software project and that such documentation plays an important role in the management of the project. A university software project is used as a case study to illustrate the above points and to describe the means for achieving them. This project developed a supervisor and an assembler for a small 4K words machine and at various times it involved up to ten parttime people (instructor and students). One of the goals of the project was the development and improvement of documentation technique, and the techniques described in this article were practised and improved as the project progressed. It is felt that with minor changes the conclusions of the university project can be used in industrial projects of similar size. |
