Documentation

Noun · Hacker Culture

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  1. Written material that explains systems, decisions, processes, or how to use something. In tech culture documentation is one of the clearest signals of whether a team expects knowledge to survive people, memory, and staffing changes.

    In plain English: Written information that explains how something works or should be used.

    Example: "The incident cost more time because the documentation described an architecture that had not existed for almost a year."

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