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“Too much documentation can be just as bad as no documentation” – Unknown

Assume that a big software project has chosen to use the three types of databases below to store and maintain technical information about a product under development: planning artifacts, trade studies, requirements artifacts, design artifacts, test cases & results, source code, installation instructions, developer guidance, user guidance.

Unless one is careful in defining and disseminating to the team the “what goes where” criteria, a fragmented and ambiguously duplicitous mass of confusion can emerge quicker than you can say “WTF?“.