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On 6/20/07, Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> >From what I gathered by looking at Wikipedia's blurb on the Mythical Man-Month,
Read the book itself. It is good enough to be worth re-reading every
few years too.
> ... Sorrry to say it, but 98% of all business analysts can only maintain focus
> on essential (i.e., implementation independent) requirements for about 30
> seconds. Afterward, he/she HAS to digress into, time-wasting implementation
> details, ...
There's a chapter on architecture vs. implementation.
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