Struppelhoff: Agile Often Worsens the Software Engineering Documentation Problem
Matt Struppelhoff · AI Can Write Code, But It Can't Do Architecture · Apr 22, 2025 · at 9:05
Matt Struppelhoff, CEO of Red Hawk Technologies, discusses taking over legacy codebases and the industry-wide misconception that Agile methodologies eliminate the need for documentation.
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“Documentation has always been a massive problem in the software engineering space. You know, agile comes in. People think that means you don't have to document things. True agile practitioners, scrum, scrum bond, they know documentation is important. They figure out what the right balance is, but the lack of documentation that we see in the industry is, is pretty pretty crazy.”
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