Documentation is the work that is often neglected by developers and their managers. This is often due to lack of time toward the end of development cycles, and the fact that people think they are bad at writing. Even though some developers may not be very good at writing, the majority of them should be able to produce fine documentation.
The common result of neglecting the documentation efforts is a disorganized documentation landscape that is made up of documents written in a rush. Developers often hate doing this kind of work. Things get even worse when the existing documents need to be updated. Many projects out there are just providing poor, out of date documentation because no one in their team knows how to properly deal with it.
But setting up a documentation process at the beginning of the project and treating documents as if they were modules of...
