PurposeIn the present article, the authors tackle the problem of IT documentation, which plays an important role in information technology (IT) project management.Design/methodology/approachThey provide a simple tool based on five complementary views, which should be detailed by the project team using a classic source code management platform.FindingsThe proposed tool is open source and may be reused by any IT team in various project contexts and heterogeneous development methods.Originality/valueThis research provides an operational framework, which facilitates IT project management and documentation. The framework is open source and may be easily downloaded by any other IT team.
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