Documentation costs money and time. Still it is required in regulated industries and is needed to be able to maintain large scale software projects.Most projects are trapped in a world with a limited ability to e.g. maintain versions and baseline. It puts people in silos, requires handovers with cost and loss of information.Coming from waterfall, Siemens Healthineers identified documentation handling as major enabling for engineering efficiency. A process and tool change was initiated to introduce collaborative, seamless, actionable documentation.Follow me on the journey from first pilot to successful migration a project.

Target Audience: Testers, QA Engineers, Test Managers, Developers, Business/Product Owners
Prerequisites: None
Level: Advanced

Extended Abstract:
Nobody likes writing documentation. It costs money and time, it is boring, nobody knows when and how it is used. Still it is required in regulated industries. Software development documentation like requirements and test cases etc. is needed to be able to maintain large scale software projects.Most software projects are trapped in a documentation tooling with a limited ability to maintain versions, baseline, trace between dependencies and link between planning and documentation. Often documentation tooling is project phase specific (e.g. requirements management or test case design) and puts people in silos and requires handovers with cost and loss of information. Coming from waterfall, Siemens Healthineers identified software development documentation handling as major enabling for engineering efficiency in agile. A process and tool change was initiated to introduce collaborative, comprehensive, seamless, actionable, lightweight, controlled documentation that is always up-to-date with the software itself. Follow me on a journey from first pilot to successful migration in a whole project. Learn about culture change and return on invest. Celebrate with me the results, there is something in for everybody. Most benefits are for testers who get early and flexible design input. Testers can showcase the impact of any test results to requirements and release at a push of a button. Even the product can benefit from the ability to focus on value stream.