I thought this post was about having personal projects... If I don't have personal projects I never learn anything. Work training tends to be far too much about training for tools like DOORS, etc (P.O.S.). I use personal projects to learn more about the tools, learn more about intricacies of some aspect of development. It's rewarding for its own sake and it keeps me on top of the trade. As for Documentation, anyone that doesn't document should be summarily shot. If you've done any maintenance on bad code you'll know that trying to figure out how that rats nest of code works is worthless without documentation. Some developers are natural obfuscators without realizing it. My perception of them is that they're lazy, inexperienced or incompetent (or all three).