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If managers don't reward documentation, people won't do it. There's no magic "incentive alignment" wand, managers will either think of long term and reward main
by itamarst 9y ago
If managers don't reward documentation, people won't do it. There's no magic "incentive alignment" wand, managers will either think of long term and reward maintenance work too, or will only reward shiny new work. You need topdown focus on long term sustainability of organization.
- crdoconnor 9y agoIn most corporate cultures not only is documentation not rewarded, problems caused by a lack of or poor quality documentation are usually not recognized.
- virgilp 9y agoIt's worse than that - if you don't properly document stuff, you are that awesome guy who can help everybody. Sometimes I have the impression that some people to (semi-)intentionally create tons of already-out-of-date and misleading "documentation" to create the illusion that they did their job, but that's just the natural state of documentation is - hopelessly out-of date.