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June 14, 2005

No functional specs

Stories, scenerios, and the UI is the place to start.

Functional specifications document are yes documents. Theyre political. Theyre all about getting to yes and we think the goal up front should be getting to no. Functional specs lead to scope creep from the very start. Theres very little cost in saying yeah, ok, lets add that to a Word document.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives/001050.php

Posted by mikel at June 14, 2005 09:17 PM

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