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Sending doc status reports -- a tool for visibility and relationship building [API doc course]

by Tom Johnson on Aug 15, 2021
categories: technical-writing • api-doc-site-updates

I recently added an article titled Processes for reporting status to business stakeholders to my API course. Sending documentation status reports can help foster trust and awareness with your business stakeholders. These stakeholders might be the core leadership within your organization or simply your management chain the next level up. Besides building visibility and relationships with these stakeholders, creating these status reports each month gives you a regular cadence for doc assessment and analysis, which is also helpful.

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