Written Guidance. Necessary?

posted by  jhorra (5)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

In my last post I mentioned that we are having a lot of hallway discussions lately. Another topic that is getting a lot of airtime lately is written guidance. As you know, the patterns & practices team has been producing written guidance since the team was created. Over the years we've evolved the the code-based guidance considerably - from reference implementations and application blocks to software factories that contain guidance package (code generation), the written guidance has pretty much stayed the same. This may or may not be a problem, but there inlies the problem - we