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> Employers either neglect documentation work or hold
> it in active contempt.
You reply as if there is a separation between employer
and employee. I know some situations are like that,
but in many cases this is a completely subjective
outlook.
> Employers don't understand documentation work, and
> documentation doesn't
> appear on their radar screen unless painfully forced
> by a customer.
Many employers don't understand programming work
either, but trust the engineering department to manage
that well.
> Depends on the employer, I guess.
To some degree (extreme cases) yes.
> Tech managers have invested much time into learning
> about coding practices and development
> methodologies.
Not all of them. I know many tech managers who are not
techies. Again, there is a solid difference between
being able to work technically and being able to
manage a technical group of workers.
> But they haven't invested similar time into
> learning about documentation; it's just considered a
> no-brainer.
Is that their fault or ours for not making our
workflow and infrastructure visible?
> But in the business world, projects go
> undocumented all the time. I guess the CS training
> didn't stick.
Define undocumented. What is considered documentation
and what isn't can be extremely subjective.
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