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> Which leaves me with the choice of explaining to new hires how the system works No documentation?
by sumedh 6y ago
> Which leaves me with the choice of explaining to new hires how the system works
No documentation?
- Insanity 6y agoFrom experience I'd say there doesn't tend to be a great deal of documentation, or up-to-date documentation anyway, on a large monolith application. Good software engineers are not necessarily good writers, so even when there is documentation it's not always helpful either. Especially to completely new people in a project without background information. For security related work, how much background can you assume? How in-depth does the documentation have to be? etc etc.. Documentation, even when it's there, doesn't always fix this.
- afarrell 6y agoHanding documentation over the wall is usually a futile exercise anyway. Documentation should be usually be pair-written by a knowledgable person and a newbie.