Project documentation: The burden

Some reasons about why is important to have time to add documentation in projects

Ricardo Ribas
5 min readNov 30, 2023
Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash

This article is part of a series of articles that talk about different stages of a development workflow.

For the old Ricardo, documentation was not something that relevant. A few lines to explain what the project does and how to run it was pretty enough. I was wrong, totally wrong… After some years of experience, taking different perspectives into consideration and tasted my own poison by participating in projects with almost zero documentation, allowed me to see documentation with new eyes. I will share with you a few arguments that completely changed my vision about documentation. After reading this article, I hope you take a new step into documentation and embrace it in a more positive way.

Pass the baton properly

If you are not familiar about the relay race, you can find a very nice explanation in the olympics website [1]:

Jamaica on IAAF world championships in Beijing 2015 relay race

At the Olympics and other World Athletics-sanctioned tournaments, a relay race is an event where a team of four athletes run equal predetermined…

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Ricardo Ribas

Software Engineer passionate about rock climbing, yoga, gaming and travelling