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Conclusion: I once worked on a project for which the procedure for establishing a development environment was captured in a document about six pages long. Over the next two years, the project had a total of 22 staff come and go. Each time a new person arrived, someone printed out a copy of the "How to setup your development environment" document, the new developer would go away and follow it, and after a few hours, be ready to begin development. It was all very straight forward and uneventful. Nowhere near as exciting, I'm sure, as running around trying to piece together a build environment from the half-remembered tribal folklore of the existing team. And certainly not helpful in making the current project team feel "special" as the keepers of some secret Masonic knowledge. But it was very efficient and effective; a good demonstration of the power of documentation when used sensibly.