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A comment on Ask HN: How does your team handle knowledge documentation?.

Re:Ask HN: How does your team handle knowledge documentation? by rubidium on Monday November 06, 2017 @01:29PM (#15637588)
The PR isn't your problem. There will be some other other problem you'll find with any new documentation system. The root cause is keeping documentation up to date is universally a pain. Unless you have it as (part of) someones job, it always will be subject to decay.

If someone has "solved" creating a good way to capture tribal knowledge, I'm all ears. But it's not the tools being used that are the issue or the solution.

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Re:Ask HN: How does your team handle knowledge documentation? by throwayit on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:28PM (#15639905)
Our company has a culture of making it a part of the dev owner (or product owner's) job. So as part of shipping a feature / epic / task you are expected to create and update documentation. The added benefit is when someone has a question you point them to the document and make sure they read it before scheduling a meeting.
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