Heidi is a developer advocate at LaunchDarkly. She is passionate about clear communication, humane workplaces, and conference speaking. In her spare time, she sews dresses with pockets.
In my company we have an internal reward system that accumulates as points. You can buy stuff using the points.
When I started, I had 2 weeks to learn everything from the guy that was quitting so I watched what he was doing and put it into our wiki from my notes and updated them as I took over. My boss is horrible at documenting his scripts and code so I like to bug him in the code reviews to fix things. He usually does. Still, we have a lot of stuff in our backlog.
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I think you could! I actually think that using documents as tests might be really productive in that case.
The question remains, though: How are you motivating people to do that writing? Just asking for something is not usually enough.
In my company we have an internal reward system that accumulates as points. You can buy stuff using the points.
When I started, I had 2 weeks to learn everything from the guy that was quitting so I watched what he was doing and put it into our wiki from my notes and updated them as I took over. My boss is horrible at documenting his scripts and code so I like to bug him in the code reviews to fix things. He usually does. Still, we have a lot of stuff in our backlog.