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Documentation is often neglected in many IT projects.  This week, we talk about why it is so important, and the risks involved if you don't do it.

Some of the most fundamental things you need to document are:

• Passwords - and do it securely in a password vault
• Data dictionary so everyone knows how measures and KPIs are defined
• Configuration - so there is a clear understanding of where everything lives
• Reasons behind decisions - because there might be a good reason for not doing something in the obvious way

How you do it is up to you and your use case - it's important that it shouldn't become too onerous, and Agile is no excuse for not doing it - if all your developers leave with all your service account passwords in their heads, you're sunk.

And documentation can be as simple as a OneNote notebook and comments in code, or something more complex such as a set of Confluence pages.

But however you do it, make sure you ACTUALLY DO IT!!

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