Auditing and Enforcing Compliance with Policies and Procedures: Who Is Responsible?

Auditing and enforcing compliance with P&P content should not be the responsibility of a P&P group or included in the job description of a P&P practitioner. However, the charter or job description may state that P&P practitioners are responsible for supporting compliance efforts.

Urgo, Raymond E. Policies and Procedures Authority, The (2008). Articles>Documentation>Standards>Policies and Procedures

Markers That Help Measure Communication Quality

In our consultancy, we have developed a set of terms that represent what we consider to be an effective set of descriptive markers. Markers that help to measure how well a document is communicating. We characterize our set of markers as “Document Standards” for all forms of technical and scientific writing.

Cuppan, Gregory P. Brainery.net (2009). Articles>Documentation>Quality>Standards

How Do You Measure Communication Quality?

Most people involved with authoring and reviewing process do not have good markers to inform them of the overall communication quality of a document. So without good markers they are left to utilize really poor markers to help them measure document quality.

Cuppan, Gregory P. Brainery.net (2009). Articles>Documentation>Quality>Standards

The McCulley/Cuppan Standards Development Process We Use with Our Clients

People use different terms to describe quality and if they actually use the same term, then it is highly unlikely that they will use the same definition for the term. So the first problem faced in the review process is the vocabulary used to describe quality attributes in a document.

Cuppan, Gregory. Brainery.net (2009). Articles>Documentation>Quality>Standards

Quality Manuals for Quality Products

Under the European law, the user manual is an integral part of the product. Faulty instructions or lacking safety information may lead to unforeseen liability claims. Several standards and directives give guidance on how to fulfill safety requirements, but also regulate design, use of language and information architecture of any high-quality manual.

Anagnostopoulos, Konstantin and Thomas Bilz. TC World (2008). Articles>Documentation>Standards>Europe