What Are We Building?

by Jeff Langr

February 16, 2004

Requirements, requirements. There are few things worse to me as a developer than having to guess what I’m supposed to build. I’m currently in a shop where we get high level requirements from an end customer, but the details are left to us.

–“Should this have a default, Bill?”
–“I dunno, what do you think, Jeff?”
–“I dunno, what do you wanna do, Marty?”

Ugh. It’s a huge comfort to have someone take the time to find out what we should really be building.

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Jeff Langr has been building software for 40 years and writing about it heavily for 20. You can find out more about Jeff, learn from the many helpful articles and books he's written, or read one of his 1000+ combined blog (including Agile in a Flash) and public posts.