In the context of documentation or team communication there are a lot of values.

To define the values of documentation for roles of stakeholders we need to find desirable qualities of documentation or team communication. The list of quality attributes to documentation is quite extensive and overwhelming.

 

A sample of quality attributes for documentation:

  • accuracy
  • adequacy
  • authenticity
  • clarity
  • classifiability
  • clearness
  • completeness
  • conciseness
  • concreteness
  • confirmability
  • consistency
  • correctness
  • editability
  • honesty
  • integrity
  • objectivity
  • organization
  • preciseness
  • readability
  • relevance
  • retrievability
  • task orientation
  • timeliness
  • traceability
  • simplicity
  • style
  • understandability
  • usefulness
  • validity
  • visual effectiveness

To support teams seeking to create and maintain valuable documentation, we need to define a set of actionable qualities. Grouping is the first step to make qualities actionable. The second step is to make them more specific.