Let’s Bring Back Documentation In Software Development
In the early days of my career, I was mocked by my teammates for being a documentation guy. My task involved creating a bunch of documents depicting user stories, and nothing else, for weeks.
The task was purely verbose. It bored me so much, that I almost left my software career. I pleaded to my boss to assign me some real coding stuff.
To my surprise, he put me into an elevated task:
Write functional and technical specs.
Being a beginner, I hesitantly concurred, but later on, I began to understand the fullest extent of its potential.
I appreciated it from the bottom of my heart, for it played a very crucial part in formation of a programmer: myself. The only part that was left to accomplish was coding by hand / copy-paste from reliable source.
That final part, as I realized, was only 20% of a programmer’s daily routine. I had already surmounted 80% during documenting.
Why Is It Fashionable & Trendy To Hate Documentation:
Every time there is discussion about software development life cycle, developers and project managers are divided into two camps: Waterfall vs Agile.
