Improve your engineering quality through documentation with Jordan Stone

We’re very excited to welcome our special guest for today’s episode, Jordan Stone, the VP of Engineering at Paytient, a company on a mission to make paying for and accessing health care easier for everyone. Before that, Jordan led Product and Engineering teams at Panasonic, Deloitte, and Notion (a Comcast company).

In this episode, we talk about documentation and how this can help your team effectively scale. Tune in to the full episode and enjoy.

Key Takeaways:

• Why are there trade-offs associated with making decisions that tend to get lost?
• How does teamwork affect decision-making?
• The costs of code-switching
• Confluence vs Github for documentation, which one is better?
• Documentation democratizes the ability of anyone on the team to have an idea.
• Great way to identify and coordinate stakeholders
• Ways to improve the involvement in decision making.
• The challenges facing engineering and how to overcome those.
• Documentation matters and why you should include it in your code.

Connect with Jordan Stone at Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/jordanmstone

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