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The importance of documentation

Unloved, maligned, yet much needed

Uwe Friedrichsen

9 minute read

Two lonely trees on a green meadow

Documentation – not only since the rise of Agile a controversially discussed topic in IT. On the one hand, we see a lot of demand for documentation by many parties. On the other hand nobody wants to create it.

The continuous amnesia issue

As an industry we continuously forget what we have learned

Uwe Friedrichsen

10 minute read

Part of an artificial hive for solitary bees

In this post I want to discuss an issue that I, being for a longer time in IT meanwhile, observe over and over again. It is the observation that as an industry we continuously forget what we have learned.