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Discussion on: How does your company value documentation?

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Lena Timofeeva

The company I work with (it's a client, but I'm based there full-time) requires to document every small change. Apparently, it takes more time to document things than development itself, which is crazy, and also doesn't really add value, as it's stored mostly in separate word files and not searchable.
I think it's important to 1) find a good balance of what needs to be documented, and what doesn't require extra explanation (people can't read long documents anyway); 2) organize documentation in a structured searchable way (i.e. Wiki-pages with categories and tags)