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Prefer to invest more in preserving information with long-term relevance to the stakeholders.

While creating documentation requires resources, we need to take advantage of the properties of written documentation. Therefore the invested resources require to prefer the creation of documents with long-term relevance.

There may be the need for documents of short-term value. But these should be considered as reports without the need to be updated.

Related Practices

The following practices are related to this principle.

Write to the many
Invest in the creation of a document relative to the amount of its readers and the estimated time they will save searching for the information. Also take into account that a clear text reduces the risk of misunderstanding.

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