Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

We need to have the definition. Otherwise, we don’t know what we are doing.

In agile development, we value working software over documentation.

Great. Now…still…we need a definition of the software. Something that says, push this button this happens. Push that button that happens.

We, however, don’t have time to write that stuff. If you want to know what happens when you push this button, go push it and observe. It will be apparent.

Sure, for simple things that is fine. Are you building simple things? If you are, introduce me to your customer because I would love to build simple things instead of what I am doing now.

The rest of us still need a definition of the software.