What’s more, they openly express their distrust that the effort of documentation will ever pay off.

Why this?

It is based on a misconception about what needs to be documented.

Engineers see well-maintained technical documentation and best practice documentation and assume that the goal is to reproduce it.

But that's a pointless exercise. By the time you've created documentation with that level of detail, teams have already made weeks of progress and the content you've created is already out of date.

Instead, we need to link all our documentation to business processes.

Instead of having a document titled “System Architecture,” you may need to update your documented peer review process. Or add a “Learn about our architecture” step to onboarding.

In this episode of De-stress Your Business, we take a closer look at the misconceptions that can hold software development teams back and how to combat them.

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