[ComputationalComplexity]

The question is what kind of documentation. Alot of engineers turn out docs that cannot be used to later enhance or modify the software that they wrote, its just self preservation, this is also true for most domestic consultant companies. They deliver docs, but its meant to satisfy computer-illiterate managers, not the engineers.

[blueriver]

The question is what kind of documentation.

Most companies that I worked for required a Technical Design Specification for any major software component.

[FormerLurker]

They deliver docs, but its meant to satisfy computer-illiterate managers, not the engineers.

On one major project I worked on, the documentation was virually non-existent, and the code looked like spagetti. In fact, most of the base classes needed to be rewritten, and ALL of the memory allocation and deletion calls had to be reimplemented.

The original code and accompanying "documentation" was written by off-shore "consultants" in India.