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Heh, now I feel weird. I work for a big corporation and I've been trying to make them worry about the "hit by a bus problem". Imagine having a very critical par
by CodeMage 16y ago
Heh, now I feel weird. I work for a big corporation and I've been trying to make them worry about the "hit by a bus problem". Imagine having a very critical part of your application, without which your business logic can't run. Imagine that this part could bring down the production database server. Imagine that there's only one guy who knows the heart of that part of the system and almost no documentation at all.
Now imagine the situation in which that guy is trying -- and failing -- to make his bosses care about that...
- yellowbkpk 16y agoSounds like you should be threatening to leave the company unless better compensated. While you're out, you could write the documentation that doesn't exist and sell it back to them :).
- techiferous 16y agoThreatening can erode the relationship.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoThe conclusion to the "hit by a bus" problem is correct, even if the argument to get there is wrong. It's still correct to spread knowledge around as much as possible. First, it prevents a single person from becoming a bottleneck in development. Second, a better understanding of the rest of the system helps developers understand their assignment better.