With the right tool, organizing all your team's important information in one place is pretty simple.

But from where you sit now, it probably feels daunting. Information may be scattered. It may be out of date. It may feel like an overpacked suitcase, where you have to pull out everything just to find the right pair of socks.

Trust us. Investing time in building a single, central engineering wiki will pay longterm dividends. Because a bad organizational system snowballs, and it can lead to inefficient work — time wasted looking for the right thing, outdated info, duplicative projects, incorrect processes.

Here, we'll walk you through building your own engineering wiki using Notion (you might also call it a knowledge base), and how it can unlock a better workflow for your team.

In this piece, you'll learn

• How to create a wiki for your engineering team, step-by-step
• How to customize it to match your team's needs
• How to use features and integrations that are useful for engineering specifically

Here's just one example of what your finished product could look like:

Why a wiki is critical for engineering teams

Ask yourself: where does all your team's information live? If the answer includes multiple destinations, your team probably lacks a central source of truth for documents that are essential to working effectively.

You deserve one reliable resource for:

• Code style guidelines, your triage rotation, and infrastructure information — all up to date and easily accessible by everyone on your team.
• Onboarding resources for new engineers to help them get spun up and productive fast.
• Pages specific to the various projects going on inside your engineering team so everyone stays in the know about who's working on what.

No wiki means no hub for this information, which could have downstream effects. Information gets siloed so no one has a complete picture of what's going on. More meetings and conversations get scheduled because that information isn't findable. Work gets inaccurate and inconsistent because an engineer has been using an outdated style guide.

An organized and accessible wiki helps alleviate these problems. No more sifting through graveyards of documents all called the same thing (which are probably stale and outdated, anyway).