Just for one persona.
Good old Peter Drucker formalized the personas in his advice to new employees to figure out how their bosses consumed information:
1 - The lawyer. Needs walls of text.
2 - The architect. Needs diagrams, visuals.
3 - The accountant. Needs numbers, spreadsheets.
4 - The actor. Needs a conversation, verbal.
It's a generalization, of course, but I have applied this pattern successfully. The core bit is that using the wrong method with any of the 4 personas flat out does not work.
Send a long article to an accountant and they're stumped. But send them a bunch of numbers and they hear the numbers sing. Etc.
Tangent on the Amazon way of write ups - Bezos forced his persona on the whole company. I would hste it. I am an architect, a few diagrams is all I need.
Good old Peter Drucker formalized the personas in his advice to new employees to figure out how their bosses consumed information:
1 - The lawyer. Needs walls of text.
2 - The architect. Needs diagrams, visuals.
3 - The accountant. Needs numbers, spreadsheets.
4 - The actor. Needs a conversation, verbal.
It's a generalization, of course, but I have applied this pattern successfully. The core bit is that using the wrong method with any of the 4 personas flat out does not work.
Send a long article to an accountant and they're stumped. But send them a bunch of numbers and they hear the numbers sing. Etc.
Tangent on the Amazon way of write ups - Bezos forced his persona on the whole company. I would hste it. I am an architect, a few diagrams is all I need.