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Table of Contents
Purpose ............................................................................................................................4
Scenarios ...................................................................................................................4
1 – Customer Calls Tech Support......................................................................4
2 – Product Rollback .........................................................................................5
3 – Errors, Omissions, Bug Fixes, and Workarounds........................................5
4 – Document Rollback .....................................................................................5
5 – Many Copies................................................................................................5
6 – Different Documents With Common Information .........................................6
7 – More Than One Writer .................................................................................6
8 – Parallel Review of Work-in-Progress...........................................................6
9 – Differences Between Single-Sourced Outputs ............................................6
10 – Maintaining Single-Sourced Documents....................................................7
11 – Traceability ................................................................................................7
12 – Time and Cost Overruns ...........................................................................7
13 – Parallel Hardware and Software Development..........................................7
Writer Circumvention .................................................................................................7
Existing Solutions...........