Documentation

• One of the ways of promoting your technical vision in the company as staff engineer is influencing.
• You need to make sure, that your tool for influencing is scalable.
• Documentation is one of scalable tools for influencing.
• Documentation is an asynchronous process which goes hand to hand with meetings - synchronous process.
• Documentation can be in any forms - text, video, presentations etc.

Hints for quality:

• Always include context in any doc.
• TLDR section is nice, better to place in the end.

Resources:

Scaling your influence through documentation Defining a technical vision