Comment by chubot
4 years ago
It depends on the situation. Documentation and in-person meetings aren't mutually exclusive. A meeting to go through the docs and update them is often very useful.
Not everything has to be "scalable". There are many parts of the code that only 1 or 3 people will ever work on. In fact in most places I'd say that's most of the code.
I’ve never been unhappy when provided with thorough documentation.
Do you have any examples of sufficiently thorough documentation?
I've basically never been happy with the documentation I've been provided with, whether for internal company code or 3rd party OSS stuff or 3rd party paid stuff...
Just do audits. There are ISO standards for practically everything and you should run internal audits (and external ones if you can afford it for important stuff).