Re:Many software companies are a joke
by bbarnett on Monday May 16, 2022 @07:03AM
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This also glosses over something else. Comprehensive documentation can even be really well documented code!
And in small corps, there's the "guy who wrote it" was "hit by a bus" scenario. It doesn't matter how dilligent, or how faithful someone may be when they leave, eg walking a replacement through the codebase can't happen of you're dead!
This is how I document. I think about being hit by a bus, and what would this corp do? A replacement hiree do? See?
Not doing this is, IMO, should be criminal. Like a CFO not keeping books.
And in small corps, there's the "guy who wrote it" was "hit by a bus" scenario. It doesn't matter how dilligent, or how faithful someone may be when they leave, eg walking a replacement through the codebase can't happen of you're dead!
This is how I document. I think about being hit by a bus, and what would this corp do? A replacement hiree do? See?
Not doing this is, IMO, should be criminal. Like a CFO not keeping books.