CRED Practical Document Writing and Management

Avoiding Drift

● Timelines built around the content lock of each document and takes into account how much work is required to make documents ‘publish ready’. ● Once document is ‘content locked’, publishing begins and no further changes should be made, unless business critical. The RO team maybe able to accommodate minor changes if work hasn’t begun particular document. ● Remember to read your internal QC procedures! Before locking down a document, internal QCs take place within relevant functions, consistency checks, management reviews and quality reviews. This time and resource was built in to happen before ‘content lock’. If a change to the document is required after content lock, then that time will need to be clawed back somehow or jeopardise the submission date will have to be moved. ● Always contact RO immediately if a document is to be unlocked so that formatting / publishing / external hyperlinking can be stopped. Changes to documents in the late stages of publishing can have a critical effect on the submission date.