15Five Documentation Working Group

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The idea here is form a working group to help advocate for best-practices of documentation at 15Five. Writing things down is perhaps one of the most important parts of a remote engineering team. Failure to write things down creates a number of pile-on effects of bad culture. Hidden knowledge, duplicated work, poor understanding of existing systems.

Good engineering practices can do a number of things both for the group and the individual. For the group, you get ever increasing common knowledge, higher Bus Factors,