RE: Software User Guide as Specifications Doc - Anyone tried it?

Subject: RE: Software User Guide as Specifications Doc - Anyone tried it?
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:29:40 -0700 (PDT)


--- Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> wrote:
>
> >John Posada wrote:
> >That's fine, but at that point, it stopped being a User Guide
> >(UG).
>
> I agree completely with you. I wasn't promoting the process, I was
> just
> reporting it. From what I remember, there never was an FS. I think
> they just sat down and started programming one day.

Sean...for discussion....

Is it possible for developers to "[sit] down and started programming
one day."

Understand that I'm not a programmer and don't even play one on
TV...but what I mean, assuming that there is more than one developer,

doesn't some type of mimimum planning need to be done, at least so
the developers end up with something compatible? I don't think I've
ever been on a project that didn't have some sort of specifications.
Granted, sometimes they didn't tell me it existed and I had to use
tools to search the shared network drives...but something existed.

Is it true that some projects have no specifications?


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