Importance of Rigorous Documentation in the Engineering Process

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Thorough documentation is essential in engineering to minimize errors and ensure a clear understanding of the problem being solved. The focus should be on understanding the problem and determining if the current approach is appropriate. The engineering process is not about following a strict top-down methodology, but about assessing if there is enough information to proceed, or if further experimentation and information gathering is necessary. Rigor in documentation is about ensuring enough information is available to make informed decisions and proceed with confidence.

Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the “tech debt” analogy, why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system.

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