Re: [rant] Requirements gathering gone incomplete.

Author: Stephen Russell

Posted: 2011-02-15 at 18:29:00

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Ed Leafe <ed@leafe.com> wrote:

> On Feb 15, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:

>

>> If you can not do a waterfall for this requirement please let me know how?

>

>

>        The fact that you got so far along before anyone noticed that important feature X was missing was what I was reacting to. Using iterative development (agile is just one example), this would have been noticed much earlier in the process. Relying on comprehensive documentation instead of user feedback is the hallmark of waterfall.

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I had user signoff a year ago on alpha and it has taken weeks of users

actually running it for them to say "hey! it's not right."

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Stephen Russell

Sr. Production Systems Programmer

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901.246-0159 cell

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