This is more important than you think. To expand on the parent, when communicating keep in mind several extremely important goals:
- you are able to organize your work. If a problem is potentially without a solution, you're likely not going to be able to hold all of that info in your brain at all times.
- when you bring someone in to help, they could get all the context they need by reading the materials - emails, documents, comments, etc, that you already created and organized. They will likely not have all the context you have, but they will have information available and digested.
- it helps keep stakeholders up to date on the progress and risks. Maybe you are able to just talk to your boss, but you don't want to repeat all of that each time you tell someone new. You don't want to setup a meeting just to update your stakeholders
- in case you are able to solve the problem, the materials you write while solving the problem will serve as a staring point for the documentation of the feature/product
- you are able to organize your work. If a problem is potentially without a solution, you're likely not going to be able to hold all of that info in your brain at all times.
- when you bring someone in to help, they could get all the context they need by reading the materials - emails, documents, comments, etc, that you already created and organized. They will likely not have all the context you have, but they will have information available and digested.
- it helps keep stakeholders up to date on the progress and risks. Maybe you are able to just talk to your boss, but you don't want to repeat all of that each time you tell someone new. You don't want to setup a meeting just to update your stakeholders
- in case you are able to solve the problem, the materials you write while solving the problem will serve as a staring point for the documentation of the feature/product