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What strategies does your organization use for keeping documents timely?

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Keith Emery St. Louis, Mo, United States
Documents such as templates and internal guides tend to grow dated unless they are reviewed regularly. How do you enforce reviews and who is responsible for them?
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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia
Having a formal Document Control system which triggers review dates and sends notifications to update them is helpful .
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Apr 07, 2017 10:52 AM
Keith Emery
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Hi Deepesh,

Would you care to recommend a document control system? Or, if you know any that should be avoided that would be helpful too.

Thank you.
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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia
The owner of the document is the person who is responsible for updating the document . The document control system allows assigning of this owner
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
What I have seen is a Web base document repository well organise. For the reviews I have not seen a system that is maintain in the long run!
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Handled within the PMO, outside of my control. Although, I also keep my own collection of templates, but those are generic and don't require updates/reviews.
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Liana Underwood National Capital Region, Va, United States
For the most important documents, determine what the cycle of updates will be - weekly, monthly, semi-annually and I create a calendar invite for myself to remember to update them.
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S Rajasekar Senior Project Manager| Allscripts Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Root cause is firefighting , Every projects starts happily and slowly moves into firefighting mode, these all will become minor task/issues , Even if it is updated timely it will be for name shake…when bigger problem is burning small ones will be keep growing and will be on shadow until it becomes more than the current big one.
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Keith Emery St. Louis, Mo, United States
Thank you all. As with most ongoing endeavors, it sounds like discipline is the key.
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Keith Emery St. Louis, Mo, United States
Apr 05, 2017 8:35 PM
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Having a formal Document Control system which triggers review dates and sends notifications to update them is helpful .
Hi Deepesh,

Would you care to recommend a document control system? Or, if you know any that should be avoided that would be helpful too.

Thank you.

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