I am glad we started single sourcing

[forfear]

There have been times in the past, where I indeed questioned myself if the added complexity was really all that necessary. I am glad we didn't revert for our technical/help documentation with Flare.

All that staying back way past, who knows when, putting some time in on weekends - all just to standardize content in some way, fixing indexes, converting snippets, creating a master project, creating a usable style sheet for print and online. Was it all really necessary?

Just today, I discovered we will be releasing a new edition to an existing product line.

Same product, same code base, slightly reduced feature set, reduced installation steps.
70% the same, but with changes/reduction in the remaining 30%.

Am glad we single-sourced and spent the time to fix the documentation for single-sourcing as of last year all through this year. Its taken a long time to really get our docs ready, very demanding task, but i guess its paying off.

[DurtyMat]

single sourcing is rough. you have to change how you document (and in our case try and prepare a dozen or more product that share common features) but the payoff will be well worth it in the long run.

i am glad single-sourcing is finally paying off for you (and your team?)


edit: i was gonna say more ... but i currently hate breathing ... thx pollen!