graph TD
A["📚 Documentation That Gets Used"] --> B["🎨 Design Principles"]
A --> C["🔒 Document Control - Clause 7.5"]
A --> D["💻 Platform Choices"]
B --> B1["✂️ Minimum-Viable Docs"]
B --> B2["🗣️ Plain Language and Visuals"]
B --> B3["🧩 Modular Content"]
C --> C1["🔢 Versioning and Review"]
C --> C2["🗑️ Obsolete Removal"]
D --> D1["📖 Wikis and Portals"]
C --> E["🛡️ Guards Against Outdated Knowledge"]
style A fill:#4A90E2,color:#fff,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
style C fill:#F5A623,color:#000,stroke:#333
style E fill:#7ED321,color:#000,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
style B fill:#50E3C2,color:#000
style D fill:#BD10E0,color:#fff
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Key takeaways
- Living documentation is consulted and current, unlike document graveyards that employees ignore.
- Minimum-viable documentation, plain language, visuals, and modular content make documents usable.
- Clause 7.5 document control keeps knowledge current through versioning, review cycles, and obsolete removal.
- Document control protects against acting on outdated knowledge.
- Choose platform features that genuinely improve retrieval rather than ones that add complexity.
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