“When we create Agile teams, we create teams of real, live people. That means our control and communication systems must be built around the qualities and capabilities of people, not robots. We are doing much more in a team room than simply transferring abstract pieces of metadata around about a project.” Daniel B. Markham’s “Tyranny […]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Institutional memory and deciphering documentation
Some of the methods and notation are familiar, but others are long obsolete. Even where nothing has officially changed, cultural assumptions about what should be documented explicitly or can be assumed have changed, making interpretation difficult. And it would really be nice to have a big-picture overview book. At the end of the project someone […]
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Tagged documentation, institutional memory, legacy code, maintenance
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