Technical Documentation

Last few weeks I had the pleasure to work with an awesome team, on a great project that had nothing to do with SharePoint. I was working on a proof of concept based on SAP CRM and MS InfoPath, and it actually turned out great. But, oh boy, working with SAP CRM, SAP PI, ABAP, BAPIs and IDocs is a real challenge. Not because it is so hard, but because of the lack of technical documentation.

When all else fails, read the documentation.

But when the documentation is minimal, incomplete, and badly organized, if it's present at all, it is pretty hard to do your thing successfully in a timely manner. Even Google gave up on us (as well as Bing).

Did we do something extraordinary, that no one did before? Or did people just not share their experience. I don’t know, but I do know that I won´t complain so hard about the SharePoint documentation as I did before this project.

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