September 25th, 2008Everyone has their place and/or Endless Documentation
Recently I have been involved in a few projects where for a long time I was bogged down by huge amounts of what appeared to be useless paper work, High level design, Service Definition, Service Description, Detailed design, Support documnetation, CMDB requirements, bulid documenst, architecture review etc, etc, etc . All of which seemed to be just a painfull, civil service mentality excercise designed to slow things down.
However having now come out of the other side, the penny finaly dropped. No one man can think of everything from every point of view at once. So the during the process of writing up and author review, peer review etc almost all of the assumptions, mistakes and missing bits get sorted out. In particular reviews by non technical people, seemed to serve the most benefit, as they will make totall different assumptions from a completely different view point.
Don’t get me wrong, I still believe there has to be a better way and I am certainly not looking forward to the next project, but I am sure I won’t complain so much 
