Developing a Project Life Cycle for Technical Publications
http://www.stc.org/ConfProceed/2003/PDFs/STC50-005.pdf

Le Vie, Donald S., Jr.
STC Proceedings
2003

Abstract:

Having a technical publications project life cycle (pLC) that parallels an organization's product life cycle (PLC) greatly facilitates its adoption by engineering or development organizations. A technical publications project life cycle relates major documentation project management strategies, tasks, and deliverables to the same model used by technical organizations to control product development in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Some technical organizations perceive the documentation development process as being “intrusive” into the product development process, particularly during the Implementation Phase of the PLC. Communicating a technical publications pLC to these organizations early in the PLC eliminates this misperception.