Liam has a go at answering an email query from Javiera around documentation:
"I’m thinking what indie and mid size 40-100 ppl studios can do with general documentation across the organization, such as vital instructive documentation that would conceivably be used in onboarding ( bonus points for talking how onboarding can leveraged to fact check the accuracy of documentation), how to do decide the cadence of when documentation is needed and who is delegated ownership to maintain. Or another facet is HOW people go about assessing what to document , and who is responsible for it, or documentation templates/theory (ie Good to explicitly name intended audience of specific docs)."
Please let me know what you would like covered in more detail and I'll find some production friends to come help out with answering your questions.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:22 Personal Background & Other Industries
00:05:36 Agile Manifesto
00:07:50 Explicit Written Information
00:18:40 Implicit Unwritten Knowledge
00:22:25 A Small Dependencies Example
00:27:34 How do we manage it all?
00:46:00 Tech Authors / Writers
00:51:06 How we prioritise
00:55:58 Cadence - cycle time for refreshing docs
01:00:30 Templates - Living Design Doc example & Lifecycle
01:05:51 Building documentation into workflow
01:10:00 Summary
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