The Knowledge Debt Nobody Budgets For: What Poor Documentation Actually Reveals About Your Organization
When engineering teams produce inadequate documentation, the instinctive response is to treat it as a writing problem—a skills gap that a style guide or a documentation sprint can correct. That diagnosis is almost always wrong. Poor documentation is a symptom of organizational conditions that make knowledge-sharing structurally impossible, and addressing the symptom without confronting those conditions guarantees the problem will return.