Documentation Maintenance

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: lexicon:documentation-maintenance

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which keeping decision records current adds ongoing upkeep effort.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Direct-to-main Unreviewed Change and before Early Defect Prevention.

Category

• Architecture Review Evolution Governance

In tension with

• Architecture Decision Records
• Architecture Decision Records (ADR) / Documentation Maintenance

Linked from

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• The resolutions