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The Problem with Project-Specific Knowledge

Consider a typical React team.

One developer learns:

How to create forms.

Another learns:

How to integrate APIs.

Another learns:

How state management works.

Most of this knowledge never becomes organizational knowledge. It stays inside people's heads. When developers leave knowledge leaves with them.

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Skill-Driven Development captures organizational knowledge.


Mini Exercise

Think of one important implementation detail that currently lives only in team memory.

Write down how that knowledge could be captured as a named skill.

Example

If only one developer knows how authentication forms are built, that knowledge could become:

authentication-form-skill.md

covering:

  • field structure
  • validation
  • API flow
  • state handling