Updating Technical Documentation regularly => Leaner Release Advice

[Auxilium]

Hello all, we are a company that develops SaMD and currently, we are using Google Drive and hence, our Technical Documentation basically consists of a bunch of Google Docs that we copy and update where necessary (depending on the change itself).
For every product update, we check all documents in our Technical Documentation and assess whether there is a change.
Especially in a fast-paced environment, it is crucial to be able to release let's say once per week and to have our documentation up to date.

The problem we want to solve is speeding up the release process while being regulatory compliant. We already asked ourselves whether we can just draw up our Technical Documentation after release but that would be not possible.
Can you recommend any useful tools for this process that would enable us to speed up our release process when let's say all the development and implementation is done but we can't release yet because our Technical Documentation is not ready yet? This costs us too much time!

 

[yodon]

Are your users happy with such frequent changes?

What, actually, is bogging down the release process? What documents are you needing to update and why does it take so long?

 

[Auxilium]

Hello yodon, I think one of the biggest bottlenecks we have in our current release process is the Testing of our product which we plan to reduce. The general approach in the future will be: test less and do regression testing as mentioned in some other thread of me.

1) Yes, we are currently doing frequent changes and cover them as hot fixing issues with less documentation but we cannot pursue this approach in longterm.
That said, we need something that enables us to do frequent changes with a significant speed-up in our documentation release.
2) We review all of our documents in our TD whether they need an update and then kind of release them again with signatures. Unchanged documents, we take the old ones that are already released.
3) It takes long partly because getting people to review and then sign the documents is time-consuming.

Do you know any tools or solution that could help us with in problem? is there any big potential at all to improve our release process?