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New Year's Resolutions
2022-12-29
Piotr Kononow
Let's welcome New Year! Another year we'll ignore our resolutions.
Simplified Data Lineage
2022-09-01
When you are reverse engineering a system it's good to start with something simple. That will help you see the big picture. Then you can get into more details.
Documentation on a Hunt
2022-07-28
None of us reads manuals, right? But having them with you might get handy.
Hunting, Gathering & Recruiting
2022-06-23
Documentation is blessing when you want to hire new people to your team. Any kind of documentation. And that was so since the dawn of time.
Just a small system update
2020-11-10
Do you know this that feeling of guilt that after phase of the extensive analysis, design, and implementation, you apply last minute changes or fixes without a trace in the documentation?
Team spent countless hours on documentation of requirements and the design, and just like that it becomes out of date and loses its value. And only because there was no time, budget, processes in place, or someone was just lazy.
Do you know that feeling that after a while of the release you have no idea how this system is supposed to work?
Well, the solution is quite simple, and yet so hard: keep your documentation up to date whenever system changes. Easier said than done.
Documentation room
2020-08-25
But at least they have a documentation room. Do you? A shelf? A folder? Anything?
Will document for cookies
2020-06-09
Documentation is very important part of development. You need to find ways to motivate developers to deliver it along with code and designs. You can be creative.
Hunting, gathering & documenting
2019-11-12
If cavemen did not decide to document their processes would we have Internet and mobile phones today? I think not. Start documenting your processes today if you haven't already. Document your data.
We need a bigger office
2018-11-13
Creating a diagram for many databases can be a real challenge. Including space required. Our solution - create a number of smaller diagrams.
Let's document!
2018-11-08
Documentation is that thing many people and teams give up on doing or don't plan in the first place. It is the strategy of following the path of least resistance. Documentation is something often not required immediately, but it’s always valuable in the long run.
Documentation included
2018-10-15
Customers ordering software don't see this as a separate item that requires work that they need to pay for separately. They often require it as a given.
Lots of data. No way to find it
2018-10-12
Imagine a wall of unlabeled folders and you need to find the right one. You'd need to go one by one and look inside. Meaningless names of tables in a database can be such folders and finding the right table requires to go one by one.
Check in the documentation
2018-10-11
There are tools for documentation generation, but without meaningful descriptions this documentation can be useless.