RE: Requirements documents for documentation

["Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Well, I'll take a shot:

If you regard a manual or help system (no matter its eventual format) as a 
deliverable, with specific business, user, performance, testing, release, 
and maintenance requirements, that has a cycle in the development, testing 
and release of the associated product, you should be able to adapt your 
usual requirements template to a documentation requirements document.

Base your doc outline or proposed TOC on the functional and technical specs 
for the product itself, submit it to your usual review process, get it 
approved, and start writing.

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