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  • HelloThere@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    If you know exactly what you need, then specs are great. Proven solutions for known problems are awesome. Agile is pointless in that circumstance.

    But I can count on one hand the number of times stakeholders, or clients, actually know what they want ahead of time and accept what was built to spec with no amends.

    When there is any uncertainty, changing a spec under waterfall is significantly worse. Contract negotiation in fixed price is a fucking nightmare of the client insisting the sky is red when the signed off spec states it’s to be green.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      If you know exactly what you need, then specs are great.

      If you know exactly what you need and the specs are great, then you barely need project management framework at all.

      Maybe I just work at shit companies, but it feels unrealistic to expect this this level of maturity from assigned work.