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Can you please share the lessons learned in the courses about writing documentation or perhaps recommend some courses/materials?

At my place we have an eternal struggle in “level”. We have some very high over docs, then ADR for specific decisions. At the lowest level we have the api documentation which we find most people don’t read. And then we have some tutorials. Every time I read our documentation it feels very inadequate of conveying all our knowledge and intentions.



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I think it may just be easier to share where I got any of my lessons from.

https://developers.google.com/tech-writing

Google has two short courses about 6 hours total or so that seemed a good consistent basis for me as an engineer writing documentation.

I'm not sure if it's going to answer your question on what types of documentation you will need though and how to make it feel less inadequate just how you as an individual can write better documentation.


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