Growing Software

Creating and Managing Development Documentation

You can improve your development team's productivity by making development documentation easy to create and access through wikis, intranets, or content management systems. This will encourage the creation and use of documentation. Not having a system will lead to minimal documentation being created and shared.

Unfortunately, many managers ignore documentation during the company startup phase because of lack of interest and because its absence does not appear to be an immediate problem. A small team can track internal documents easily, but as the team and product line grows, tracking all the internal documentation becomes difficult because of the number of documents and versions that can exist. Locating ...