Natuke ka asjalikul teemal
Kuivõrd oma töö poolest kuulun IT arendusega tegelejate hulka – täpsemalt küll tarkvara arendusega tegelejate punti – siis hakkan aegajalt oma frustratsiooni välja valama. Nagu ma juba alguses hoiatasin.
Esiteks – millal küll inimesed (tellijad) aru saavad, et tarkvara kirjutamiseks on vaja detailset spetsifikatsiooni. Mitte selleks, et tellijat piinata vaid selleks, et tema aega, raha ja muid resursse kokku hoida.
Why won’t people write specs? People claim that it’s because they’re saving time by skipping the spec-writing phase. They act as if spec-writing was a luxury reserved for NASA space shuttle engineers, or people who work for giant, established insurance companies. Balderdash. First of all, failing to write a spec is the single biggest unnecessary risk you take in a software project.
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Programmers and software engineers who dive into code without writing a spec tend to think they’re cool gunslingers, shooting from the hip. They’re not. They are terribly unproductive. They write bad code and produce shoddy software, and they threaten their projects by taking giant risks which are completely uncalled for.
Joel Spolsky
