I’m a big believer in project transparency. I also like to utilize a hub and spoke model where a central project intranet site is available for the team to pull from rather than relying on emails or file stores. A simple wiki with a landing page is all you really need. Especially if your client is phobic about using hosted tools (e.g., Mingle/Campfile). With a team portal, keeping the content up to date should be automatic if the content is derived from your code. Wouldn’t it be nice if documentation about your project was always up to date? Wouldn’t it be even nicer if this documentation could include easy to digest change logs, list of todos/notes and other information? Well, this post will show you how easy it is to do just that.

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