Use of format models and generic outlines to develop source material
Roger A. Grice · 1983
This paper describes how format models and generic outlines were used to produce macro and system logic descriptions for the first release of IBM's Distributed Processing Programming Executive (DPPX) during the system's development. Because models and outlines were created and adopted early in the system's development cycle and because project control of both the information and information-developing process were enforced, initial documentation available to system developers was in the same format and of the same quality as the descriptions made available to users after the system was released. The process resulted in higher quality descriptions and less last-minute rework.