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> Working software over comprehensive documentation

If your application is so complicated it needs documentation to understanding it, there is a problem with the way the application is structured. In the magic month I'd get the application broken down into independent parts which can be developed and tested separately.

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> while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more

The agile manifesto doesn't say that you shouldn't write documentation. That's an incredibly damaging idea.

> If your application is so complicated it needs documentation to understanding it, there is a problem with the way the application is structured.

Or a problem with [edit: with how some people interpret] Agile. In this case, it is the latter.

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