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Sometimes I hear objections such as “our team isn’t big enough to necessitate documentation.” Well, sometimes it makes sense. Here are five metrics to define if you need to invest effort in documentation creation: defect containment, reopen rate, estimation accuracy, decline rate, and mean time to detect. This cheat sheet in your pocket will save your team from failed commitments because of inaccurate estimation, numerous declined bugs, reopens, or even bugs detected in production.