📝 DDPD - Document Driven Product Development
Cliff Brake November 17, 2025 #product #documentation #process #development #collaboration #users #AI #workflow
Building on TDPD and RDPD, Document-driven product development (DDPD) offers another perspective.
Ideas:
- Document the feature from the user's perspective before implementing anything.
- Keep the documentation close to the code (same repo, etc.).
- Use a doc-driven AI plugin when applicable.
Benefits:
- Better thought-through features.
- Non-technical people can review before implementation.
- Higher likelihood of implementing what users actually need.
- Documentation becomes a pleasant/creative/thinking task, rather than a boring requirement after implementation.