Documented role in the process of software development

Abstract

Document management has become into a necessity for the organizations that produce a lot of information, and implicates the use of many tools or practices that allow a better performance of the organization. A software project is an organization that manages a great quantity of documents. Some of them are part of the final software product and the others are necessary for the developments into the software development. That is the reason for which it is a necessity to define a role that manages the documentation into the software project. That role is known as technical writer. This work presents a proposal of a set of activities, artifact and responsibilities that a technical writer must play into the software development process.