lc_bp_planning.dita

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    <title>Plan your tasks</title>
    <prolog>
        <author href="http://www.scriptorium.com" scope="external" format="html">Simon Bate,
            Scriptorium</author>
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            <created date="2015-09-24"/>
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        <lcIntro>
            <p>It’s tempting to jump into creating tasks, writing until you think you’re done.
                However, this approach risks missing important tasks, resulting in incomplete
                coverage. </p>
            <p>Rather than create tasks as they occur to you, a far better strategy is to plan out
                the set of tasks you need to document.
                <!--This planning is a four-step process:--></p>
            <p>There are many resources for and approaches to task analysis. The essential point to
                all of them is to:  </p>
            <ol id="ol_ovn_lhj_nt">
                <li>Gather information about what the reader should accomplish.</li>
                <li>Identify the tasks you need to document.</li>
                <li>Understand the scope of those tasks.</li>
                <li>Consider your readers’ abilities and needs.</li>
                <li>Plan your task topics accordingly.</li>
            </ol>
            <p>Once you have planned the tasks, it’s a good idea to have all stakeholders review the
                entire list of tasks. These should include writers, editors, subject matter experts
                and other content contributors, project managers, and anyone else who has a hand in
                your content development process. This step is important, because the more
                contributors you have, the less chance you have of missing an important task.</p>
            <p>The list of tasks can help you plan your concepts, reference, and glossary entry
                topics. For each task in the list, consider what concepts and reference information
                is needed to support that task.  You can also identify the terms in the task that
                will make good candidates for glossary entry topics.</p>
        </lcIntro>
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