Comment by bennysonething

This is probably one the most poignant things I've read about programming. I've recently been through a handover, left on my own at at a new job, with a long back log full of fairly useless stories, left to forge relationships with the business. Mostly left depressed and stressed. All the while a manager said "I don't understand why the handover is taking so long, it's all documented". Yeah the documentation didn't really tell me much as I lacked the business context. I'm brand new to this domain too. The article has put into words what I've been feeling for the last year.