Comments on: Big Faceless System, Version 5 http://pathfindersoftware.com/2009/11/big-faceless-system-version-5/ The Fastest Way to Launch Successful Software Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hypo http://pathfindersoftware.com/2009/11/big-faceless-system-version-5/#comment-9815 Hypo Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:48:49 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=4392#comment-9815 I've hit that problem so many times in the past it's unreal. For the first time ever I've found myself working for a company where we have a completely different (and just as absurd) problem: Lack of specifications. Not only can we not get any specifications out of the eventual end users, we can't get any out of management. "Go build one of these systems, make sure it integrates with xxx" "Sure, what do you want it to do?" *queue silence and the odd subtle hint that we should just go and make it anyway and make it do whatever we think it should do* Occasionally we'll get the other problem, a fairly reasonable spec that after a few weeks of work, then starts changing every day, negating 90% of the previous work done on it. I’ve hit that problem so many times in the past it’s unreal. For the first time ever I’ve found myself working for a company where we have a completely different (and just as absurd) problem:
Lack of specifications.
Not only can we not get any specifications out of the eventual end users, we can’t get any out of management.
“Go build one of these systems, make sure it integrates with xxx” “Sure, what do you want it to do?” *queue silence and the odd subtle hint that we should just go and make it anyway and make it do whatever we think it should do*

Occasionally we’ll get the other problem, a fairly reasonable spec that after a few weeks of work, then starts changing every day, negating 90% of the previous work done on it.

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