Nice to meet you, Pat.???
???Come on,??? said Jeff. ???Kim and I will introduce you to the other programmers.???
???Sure,??? said Pat. ???But first??”this document you were working on. Is it a requirements document or a
test document????
???Both,??? Jeff said, with a twinkle in his eye. ???And neither. It??™s a way to make sure that we get the hard
stuff right. Does it really matter what we call it????
???You seem pretty casual about this,??? Pat said. ???I did an internship last year and nobody at that company
could even think about coding until the requirements and design plans were signed off. And here you
are, adding features and revising your requirements right in the middle of coding!???
???It??™s just crazy enough to work,??? said Jeff.
???In other words,??? Kim added, ???we used to have formal process gates and signoffs, too. We used to spend
days arguing in meetings about the smallest details in our documents. Now, we focus on doing the right
things right, not on what documents we??™ve signed off. It takes a lot less work. Because we work on
everything together, from requirements to delivery, we make fewer mistakes and can figure out
problems much more easily.
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