earlier finished, higher-value, more successful projects delivered at less cost and better working conditions
Actually, appropriate documentation pays off itself multiple times — however, it is usually conceived as too expensive, superfluous.
Appropriate documentation
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establishes an overview, key for project management, consequently for project success or timely decision of project termination
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contributes to a clear system architecture, which is more robust with less maintenance much more popular since easier to use
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reveals and reduces time to overcoming contradictions
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ensures minimal on-boarding time for both new developers and users, subsequently maximizes user base (in particular in the context of decreasing attention span) and project success
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eliminates a major part of avoidable communication effort (which usually takes up major part of capacity) due to unclear yet available information, subsequently increases productivity of developers and shortens time to market
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avoids costly and time consuming errors
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offers new developers a positive developer experience, for
- the intrinsic motivation, by which higher productivity, by which earlier project success
- retents the best developers
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makes you more independent from suppliers
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may be an unrecognized unique-selling proposition with actual value often untapped
If you are interested in tapping the potential of appropriate documentation, I am happy for an initial discussion.