Developer Documentation Portal. @developer-docs-portal

Developers judge a platform by its documentation before they ever judge its API — and stale, unsearchable docs quietly tax every integration with support tickets that good pages would have prevented. The Developer Documentation Portal sprint builds or modernizes the docs experience: an information architecture that separates getting-started, guides, and reference; API reference generated from your OpenAPI or source annotations so it cannot silently drift; and search that gets developers to the right page in one query.

The finish state is a live portal your engineers keep current because updating it is part of shipping: docs-as-code in the repo, versioned alongside releases, previewed in pull requests, and published automatically. Release notes and changelogs land in the same flow.

Docs Platform & Information Architecture

Platform selection and setup — docs frameworks or hosted platforms per your constraints — with navigation and page structure designed around developer tasks, not org charts.

API Reference from Source

Reference documentation generated from OpenAPI specs, GraphQL schemas, or code annotations, with request/response examples that are tested rather than hand-maintained.

Docs-as-Code Pipeline

Docs living in version control with review, preview builds, link checking, and automated publishing — plus versioning that matches how you release.

Search & Feedback Loop

Fast full-text search tuned for code and error strings, page-level feedback capture, and analytics showing what developers look for and fail to find.

1. Scope — Audit existing docs and support-ticket themes; fix the architecture, platform, and launch content set.
2. Build — Build the portal and pipeline, generate the reference, and migrate or rewrite the launch set with your engineers reviewing.
3. Handover — Launch with redirects from old docs, contribution guidelines for the team, and the analytics baseline.

The Developer Documentation Portal is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.

Does this include writing the documentation?

The launch content set is written or migrated in-sprint — typically getting-started, core guides, and the generated reference. The pipeline then makes ongoing authorship your team's normal work rather than a standing project.

Docs portal or full developer portal?

This item is documentation. If you also need self-service API keys, usage dashboards, and app management, that is the API Developer Portal — the two share architecture and are often sequenced together.

Internal APIs or public ones?

Either. Public portals add branding and SEO weight; internal ones add SSO and service-catalog links. The platform choice at scoping reflects which audience you serve.