Documentation Extremely Important for Developers
You waste millions every year without realizing it.
A survey conducted by an American multinational technology company found that 60% of employees find it very difficult to get information from their co-workers. One of the factors is the absence of documentation, and the information is only held by the person concerned.
Documentation helps everyone to understand a process that happens in a business process. Documentation will be more effective if the information related to the task, project, steps, or people involved is collected in one centralized and organized place. Of course, this makes a document expensive and will be very valuable if it is helpful for everyone.
Documentation has become essential for everyone, especially developers. Developers will not be able to work on a feature so smoothly if there is no clarity in the form of information or documentation on how the feature can run. Documentation created by developers is not only about how the code works but about starting a business process that is easy for everyone to understand. Hopefully, the documents that have been created can be developed by others in the future.
Of course, the documentation that is made will have benefits for many people. In the following, I will inform you of the benefits of documentation.
Reduce time and effort & increase everyone’s intelligence
Documentation helps everyone to increase knowledge collectively to everyone who works for you. When sharing information within your team, you will benefit from that information more collaboratively. Developers don’t have to spend 2–3 hours looking up information to everyone.
Writing code or business processes you understand in a document is beneficial for everyone if they find difficulties in the process that is carried out to speed up how your team works. Information is not only owned by one person. But everyone needs to share it to create a more conducive work environment with smarter decisions every time.
Control and quality of a process
Documentation is a reference in business processes that consistently provide the same (even better) impact on the team. The results of this process will be consistent with this documentation. Documentation will encourage everyone to share knowledge about how the business process works and what business processes have previously been carried out.
With every piece of information collected from everyone, you don’t have to read each person’s mind to get excellent and consistent results. You and your team will be more flexible in your work, but the goals you want to achieve follow what has been stated in the documentation.
Reduce (eliminate) jobs that are considered duplicates
Every company must make the documentation to collect every business process that has been created, whether successful or not, and stored in an organized place. With this documentation, you have empowered yourself to understand each business process that has been working. Referring to previous documentation will let you learn from the existing process rather than repeating it with the same (or even worse) results.
Ralali has been using documentation as a standard for implementing a new feature or business process. Every new business process or development of current business processes will go through this document creation stage. Documents made in Ralali are also quite diverse. If you as developers, the document that is made is related to the process regarding a feature that can run or about standardization in specific applications.
The business, product, or developer team will provide ideas, opinions, criticisms, suggestions, or any information in one document during the documentation process. That way, the features created in the Ralali application can be understood by everyone based on references from the documents that have been made.
All processes for creating documentation are not accessible. Documentation needs to be made together to become a reference to continue the business process together in the team. From all the unexpected to deal with features you never knew existed, you can get past this much easier when you have documents.
As stilted and formal as it may sound, prioritizing documents in your business processes means that you and your team will develop many ideas and reliable information. Documents are your capital to build the business processes that you have run into better things.
