How to document Discoverer

Hi,
I'm struggling with how to document a Disco development. Any pointers anyone?
Thanks,
Ros

Hi Ros
Further to the great advice given by Rod, I would say standards, standards and then more standards are what you need to set up and enforce.
You need a standard naming convention for your business areas, folders and items, using a standard list of agreed abbreviations. You need to have an agreed set of approved definitions for the major KPIs which your company is trying to report.
For example, I helped a company once where they were trying to develop a KPI for on time shipments. The problem was that no-one had defined what constitutes a shipment and no-one could agree on what was an on-time shipment. Some of the questions I asked were:
Is it shipped when the customer receives the item?
Is it shipped when it leaves the warehouse?
Is it shipped when all of the goods leave or only when some of them leave?
Do these partial shipments count separately?
What's the algorithm that determines how long it took to ship?
Is it the ship date minus the order date, is it the delivered date minus the requested date - what is it?
How many days between these two dates count?
Should we include weekends and holidays in the count?
Does the day of departure from the factory count as day 1?
You can see from the above that what appears to be a very simple KPI is actually a lot more complex than at first sight. This is what you need to get a grip on and document. Believe me, having this documented will save you heartaches. You can then pre-build calculations directly into the EUL, thus avoiding users having to build them for themselves - you know they will only get it wrong!
For pure documenting of the EUL I have found that InfoCaptor (http://www.infocaptor.com/) is a very good tool. It's not expensive and it documents the EUL very well. They have some pretty good Videos and examples to take a look at on their site and they will also let you download and try their Dashboard Designer free of charge for a trial period.
Best wishes
Michael

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