[Salgat]

Exactly. Documentation is expensive and time consuming and needs to be maintained. They're absolutely great to have and can be vital, but it's up to management/leads to prioritize it because, at the end of the day, they decide where the money and man hours go.

[cteiosanu]

This. Good documentation could easily take much more time than an actual implementation of a feature / system and what is an initial X days/weeks/months of estimation is not swallowed as easily by (some) management when you tell them it should be doubled if quality documentation is desired.