Question

Why documentation is important in project management?

Answer 1

Most important of all, keepingdocumentation helps you to measure your progress on regular basis. It will also help you to know the causes of your poor performance. You can compare your estimated goals with the achieved goals by keepingdocumentation of your project.

Answer 2

It is not compulsory to create a documentation but it is a good practice. Documentation helps you in many ways: Helps you to understand you code in future. Yes, I'm saying that! It's difficult to understand your own code after some time. Maybe you want to do some improvement or add something new to your program. At that point of time, documentation will help you to understand your code.

In real world, when you're working on a project. In future, maybe other person has to work on it. It will help other developers to understand the code and makes it easy for the. to carry on the project.

It helps new users to learn quickly, simplify the product and help cut support costs.

For example: When you buy a new smartphone. It comes with a user manual which contains information about using the phone and basic troubleshooting in case of some error. It is a example of a documentation.