Simon Brown : KEYNOTE - The code doesn't tell the whole story

"We value working software over comprehensive documentation", "the value is in the conversation", "the code is the documentation", and "the tests are the documentation" are all statements you'll hear frequently as a justification for not writing documentation. And while we should all strive for self-documenting code, the code is the truth, but not the whole truth. In this talk we'll look at the importance of technical documentation, and a powerful trio of lightweight artefacts that describe what you can't get from the code.