Everything comes down to time and budget. Assuming you have a project budgeting model, make sure that for every project you add in estimates for analyzing, docu

Everything comes down to time and budget. Assuming you have a project budgeting model, make sure that for every project you add in estimates for analyzing, documenting, and integrating the backend layer, and call it out specifically as a result of insufficient documentation. What you're trying to do is get someone up the managerial food chain to ask, "Why are we paying developers to do this for every project, when we could document this once and be done with it?" To put it another way, you'll never have enough leverage to talk another business unit into spending their time and money to solve your problems. You need to make your problem someone else's -- someone with the ability to force the solution.