Readers of documentation value these qualities.
Gretchen Hargis et al. make the qualities actionable by first grouping them. Hargis defines these groups for readers of documentation.
- Easy to find
- Easy to understand
- Easy to use
These quality attributes are associated with these groups.
While Hargis et al. use the term group to organize quality attributes, we refer to this groups as values. 'Easy to find' is therefore also a value of documentation that is addressed by maximizing the quality attributes organization, retrievability, and visual effectiveness.The selection of nine quality attributes may seem a little arbitrary at first. In their book Developing Quality Technical Information (Gretchen Hargis, Michelle Carey, Ann Kilty Hernandez, Polly Hughes, Deirdre Longo, Shannon Rouiller, Elizabeth Wilde) the authors show how other quality attributes relate or are actually part of these fundamental nine quality attributes. For each quality this book provides plenty information and examples on how to create documentation with these qualities.
We won't go into more detail here. For more information on this topic we recommend: Read this book! 
Reducing the amount of quality attributes to nine and grouping them into three groups makes working on documentation actionable, because these grouped qualities are easier to manage. Nonetheless creating quality documentation is an iterative process. The quality attributes also do not demand a specific process, may it top-down or bottom up, agile or not.
To make them really actionable we need to get more specific. We need to provide guidelines to follow in order to realize the values we desire. We call these guidelines principles. Before we do this, we first continue to identify the qualities for other roles.
