My last 12 months have been spent thinking non-stop about knowledge management products and how they can be better.
After a few failed prototypes and a lot of interviews with engineers, PMs, founders, ect., I think I understand what a team knowledge hub should be…
Why is it so hard to find the information you need at work?
Whether its meeting notes, architectural overviews or just the reasoning behind why a product is made, it’s almost never just a search away. I’d like to explore that why this is and then perhaps offer a solution.…
Confluence, along with all current documentation tools, don’t scale with your team.
You start out with one or two people and only a few documents. At this point information is easy to find and things are going great. But then time passes and your team grows, now you have a few more documents. You can still find what you need, but it can take a while plus you notice that more and more of your documentation is becoming outdated. Still no need to panic, just make Greg work overtime, Greg loves working overtime…
