Keep a personal copy of all documentation you create.
Keeping a copy of all of the documentation you create is a pretty general benifit. It helps you in three major ways;
- Having a personal copy means that if the systems that have the public copies become unavilable, you will still have access to them.
- Some times projects that get shelved, lose their documentation. If you have a personal copy, when the project comes back to life, you will not be starting over.
- And you never know what future project you will be working on that will spark the memory, “Hey we solved a problem like this on this other project…” And having the documentation for it will help you.
I have never regretted keeping a personal copy of documentation. But I have always regretted knowing that I didn’t keep one when I could have used it.
