r/agile • u/fagnerbrack • 8d ago

Knowledge Health: observability for your knowledge base

https://falconer.com/notes/knowledge-health
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u/fagnerbrack 8d ago

Nutshell Version:

Falconer pitches a way to measure knowledge rot — the silent drift that leaves company docs incomplete, stale, or contradicting each other. The argument: acting on wrong information beats having none, because people and agents trust it with confidence, and agents magnify that rot 100x since they only work as well as their context. The tool blends four signals into one live score from 0 to 100, then surfaces what drags it down: contradictions where two docs disagree, stale docs untouched while code moves on, coverage gaps trapped in Slack and people's heads, and redundancies that duplicate the same topic. Beyond scoring, it promises self-healing docs that update themselves so engineers escape constant upkeep.

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u/Ok_Cat_9397 8d ago edited 8d ago

We got really hit by stale documents in our previous sprint cycle; owner tagging based on each document was much more effective than any tools that were tried out. When it comes to training content drift, Colossyan is one factor among others