Organisation Skills

• Docs @ Work
  • When, Why, Who, What?
    • A. Before Building - Alignment & Planning
    • B. During Development - Execution & Interfaces
    • C. After Experimentation - Evaluation & Iteration
    • D. In Production - Operations & Maintenance
  • How?
    • 1. Design Docs (System/ML/Experiment)
    • 2. PRDs (Product Requirement Docs)
    • 3. RFCs (Request for Comments)
    • 4. Tech Specs / API Docs
    • 5. Meeting/Decision Notes
    • 6. Experiment Docs
    • 7. Runbooks / Playbooks
    • 8. Onboarding/Knowledge Docs
  • Anything Else?
    • Supporting Details Doc - [H1 20XX / H2 20XY]
• Docs @ Life
  • Primary axis: Function
    • Recall
    • Thinking / sense-making
    • Reference / lookup
    • Narrative / communication
    • Decision log
  • Secondary axes
    • Volatility
    • Other axes
  • Classification questionnaire (use in order)
• Scheduling
  • Monthly schedule
  • Weekly schedule
  • Daily schedule
    • The process
    • Open questions