But at this point it’s never clear (to me at least) whether version 1.1 is a draft for approval or an approved update to version 1.1. So version 1.0 gets updated to version 1.1, and maybe version 1.2, and so on.

But inevitably (and increasingly in an agile world where change is to be encouraged, nay embraced)… things change, and version 1.0 needs to be revised. Now that’s all well and good up to that point. Most people tend to use the following version numbering scheme: Document version numbers might seem like a trivial concept – a subject upon which there is little to be said – but they are a real bug bear for me. So here’s a topic that you don’t see discussed very often.