Chapter 1
Rethinking Documentation
Forget about documentation. Instead, focus on the speed of working on software. You want to deliver software faster. It isn’t just about going fast right now but about going sustainably fast in the long run. It is not just about you going fast but about the whole team or company going fast.
Working on software faster involves more productive programming languages and frameworks, better tools, and higher level of skills. But the more the industry makes progress on all these aspects, the more we have to look at the other bottlenecks.
Beyond making use of technology, writing software is a lot about making decisions based on knowledge. When you don’t have enough knowledge, you have to make learning experiments ...
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