Documentation discipline

Clear documentation is the project's working base, not overhead.

Documentation is often misunderstood as an administrative requirement that slows work. In reality, it is the only way a project survives a change of team, time, or owner.

Three layers

We distinguish three layers: descriptive (what was agreed), technical (how it is built), and decisional (why this and not that). All three must coexist and be dated. Without the third layer, the first two become a collection of instructions without accountability.

Discipline is not volume

Documentation discipline does not mean volume. It means every deliverable has a clear purpose, is versioned, and is tied to the service in which it was produced. Concept design does not replace final design. Final design does not silently fix concept without an annex.

What it means for the client

For the client, discipline means each service ends with a document that enables the next step or a calm stop. For the studio, it means we do not revisit questions already resolved, unless change is intentional and recorded.

How TENET holds it

Documentation is decisions written down so they survive the next week. In an active phase we send a weekly written update. The agreed work stays written.

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