Documentation teams buy tools to solve problems. But most documentation problems are not tool problems — they are structural problems, process problems, or architecture problems that follow you from one tool to the next. Buying a new tool before diagnosing the actual bottleneck is the most expensive mistake in technical documentation.
Not every struggling Flare project needs a rebuild. Most can be improved incrementally with targeted structural changes. But some projects reach a point where incremental fixes are no longer viable — where the architecture itself has become the constraint. Here are five warning signs that your project has crossed that line.
Most Flare projects that fail do not fail suddenly. They degrade over months or years until authoring is painful, builds are unpredictable, and nobody trusts the output. The good news is that the failure patterns are consistent and detectable. Five structural factors predict whether a Flare project is heading toward trouble — and all five are measurable before things break.