[thelist] Specifications
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Tue Sep 25 13:39:45 CDT 2001
Chris Evans wrote:
> ... The contest consisted of teams of coders given the same problem.
> They were judged on completeness, creativeness of solution, and speed. All
> of the teams except one received the problem, and started coding. One team
> brought out a whiteboard, and spent 2/3 of the time designing the
> application. They won the contest by a wide margin. All of the other teams
> ended up starting code, rewriting, refactoring, arguing amongst themselves,
> rewriting again, and so on.
OK, my prior posting was written more from the "lone gunman" point
of view, and I'd agree that more structure is required for teams :-)
The *amount* of structure depends on the range of experience of the
team members, whether they've worked together before, and a lot of
other variables.
> ... However, I have found time
> and again that getting good design specs written down ahead of time actually
> saves time, though it seems like you are wasting it.
but the *degree of detail* that constitutes "good" specs is up for
grabs, and I'd say every individual or team needs to work that out
for themselves ...
YMMV :-)
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