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the 5 docs every remote team needs (and how to make sure people actually use them)
👋 Welcome back to All Things Remote: your weekly shortcut to building lean, efficient remote teams without the chaos.
Most remote teams have one of two problems: no documentation, or documentation nobody uses. Both are expensive.
In today's send:
✅ The 5 types of docs every remote team needs
✅ Why most documentation dies (and how to prevent it)
✅ How to get your team to actually keep docs updated
But first…
How's your team's documentation? |
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Why this matters more when you're remote
In an office, you can tap someone on the shoulder and ask them a quick question (even though that’s the distraction I don’t miss being remote!!) but it’s easier to overhear the answer to someone else's question.
Remote removes all of that. If it's not written down, it almost doesn't exist. And EVEN if it's written down but nobody can find it - so then we’re back with the same problem!!
Good documentation saves time and makes onboarding faster.
Bad documentation creates confusion & forces people to interrupt eachother.
You don't need to document everything, just the things people reference repeatedly.
The 5 docs every remote team needs
1. How we work