Field Notes · 18 Apr 2026
Review cadences that survive sprint pressure
Monthly documentation reviews fail when they compete with releases. Here are cadences teams in Taipei have actually kept.
A beautifully structured knowledge base still rots if nobody revisits pages after incidents. Cadence is part of the system.
What tends to stick
- After-incident notes within 48 hours for runbooks that failed on-call
- Quarterly ownership pings asking maintainers to confirm or reassign pages
- Release-tied checks for public API references only when endpoints change
Ambitious weekly “doc hours” often vanish. Tie review to events the team already respects.
Role of consultants
We can design the cadence and templates; your organisation has to staff them. If capacity is thin, shrink the protected corpus rather than pretending every page is equally maintained.