GrowingAgilePractices2004 Identifying Ways to Promote a more Agile Workplace.

Topic: Documentation, Need for and Amount of

Initiator: Bohdan Hanchuk

Participants: Martin, Scott, Costa, Dimitri, Joe Rainsberger

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Discussion Summary:

• Varying perspectives. Varying needs. Varying forces. Highly context sensitive.
• "Document with purpose". Continually question (understand) purpose of, need for, documentation. Don't document if no value.
• Temporary (e.g. sketches ) vs. persistent (e.g. glossary/dictionary, standards, …)
• Document types(e.g. requirements, use cases, models, …), level of detail, form and medium vary greatly and depends on environment, nature of team, nature of project.
• General comments/opinions: Often too much, often not current (obsolete), often not necessary, often requested by those who don't understand processes/need.
• References: www.agilemodeling.com

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'Conclusions / Proposals / Actions:

There is no singe answer, no single approach, no right answer.

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