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From: Peter Neilson
Sent: April-01-14 10:16 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: When to write in less-than-perfect Agile
If a project has two parts, and part 2 dev can't start until part 1 is nearly complete, but nobody quite understands that it's two parts, you'll be chasing the part 2 specs, trying to write something. What could be worse? Well, part 2 could require far less effort than was allocated, and your writing team will be unable to produce much of anything, perhaps because the Javadoc that finally emerged from part 1 covered everything that needed to be said for part 2.
All the while you'll be attending those scrums where minute details of inner workings are being corrected...
DEV: "We've changed to a different hashing algorithm."
WRI: "Okay, and how does that affect the doc set?"
DEV: "It shouldn't, not at all."
WRI: "So what does the user interface actually look like?"
DEV: "We'll tell you when we figure it out. If we need one at all. A lot of the parameters will be self adjusting."
WRI: "Good enough. What are the ones that'll need tweaking by the user?"
DEV: "We don't know yet."
I have no solution to the problem.
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