How much documentation do you do?

Necuno said:
yes and now; if its my project from the start i have to do it :p
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Lol ok. Problem is I get to choose what projects I want to do, but then I have to do the documentation as well. I wish we had some sort of System Analyst which would write up all the normal requirements and handle the sign-off etc. At the moment I have to do everything and I'm starting to feel like the System Analyst myself. I suppose it counts as good experience.
 
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semaphore said:
Agile with Chaos.. llol
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Yes. Most of the time we developers are pressed for time and having to do the normal documentation, not the technical docs, gets boring. Then we start to slack on the docs and next thing you have chaos indeed. :rolleyes:
 
Normally the people I work for knows what they want in terms of how the program should act or function and relies 100% on me to implement/better that which they asked for.

Documentation is left up to Tech Support to train the guys who uses the software, but mostly we try to write intelligent/clean looking UI's which is easy enough to understand without documenting it.

The team i work in also has a specific way of doing things so any developer can come in and be able to develop addons or new code within a few hours instead of a few days because everything is kept in order, named and commented correctly and documented in change lists if a change has gone through

I had the technical specification aspect of documentation because 90% of the time "business" signs off on it without really understanding wtf is going on
 
I hate documentation really, its the most painfull thing on the planet, when we get scopes i dont even read them, i just go uhuh , you want this that ok great. They come back oh wow this works, im like yeah and its ten times better what you proposed.
 
AcidRaZor said:
The team i work in also has a specific way of doing things so any developer can come in and be able to develop addons or new code within a few hours instead of a few days because everything is kept in order, named and commented correctly and documented in change lists if a change has gone through.
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I take it you are working with several other people on the same project? Who established the "guide lines" if you will? Was it there when you arrived? So you handle/help with the technical docs while other members of your team do the business requirements?
 
FarligOpptreden said:
Wow, oober, you're quite inquisitive! :p Just shooting questions everywhere...
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I'm trying to get a feel of how it's done at other companies. Problem is there are so many ways to do these things and you can so easily get completely consumed with just documentation that you never get to the actual coding. :eek::mad:

Haha I have a reputation here for asking a lot of questions . :D But hey someone's got to ask them. The only problem most of the time is knowing the right question to ask...
 
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No offense meant! Your questions are valid and your responses to the answers are entertaining to read... :) Keep it up!

EDIT: Your inquisitive nature reminds me a bit of Scrat from Ice Age... :p
 
oober said:
I take it you are working with several other people on the same project? Who established the "guide lines" if you will? Was it there when you arrived? So you handle/help with the technical docs while other members of your team do the business requirements?
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I established the guidelines regarding anything technical. Business has their guys that does business functional specs that comes through to us signed off so we need to make changes.
 
AcidRaZor said:
I established the guidelines regarding anything technical. Business has their guys that does business functional specs that comes through to us signed off so we need to make changes.
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Sigh, I unfortunately don't have any minions of my own to do the business side of the docs. Still have to do those myself. :)
 
i tried to hunt down our biggest scope document, get this lol 453 pages :P
 
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