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Re: I've been wrong all along...more pictures less words
Subject:Re: I've been wrong all along...more pictures less words From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, Daniel Ng <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:25:36 -0700 (PDT)
John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
There's a difference between writing "software requirements specs" and to "document a software system".
The specs come before it exists--it's what you want and what you want it to do over an extended period of time (it's not a system yet) and to document a software system comes after it's in place -- it's what you have and what it does at a particular moment in time.
Richard Lewis responds:
Yourdon and Associates states that ninty-eight percent (98%) of the required work in any software project is coming up with comprehensive, integrated documentation of the As-Is model. That includes the work of generating the specs. While I'll give development, testing, etc, etc, a little more credit, Yourdon is focused on the real issue.
After you have comprehensive, integrated documentation of the As-Is, coming up with the specification for the "To-Be" is comparatively easy stuff that can be deligated to junior people.
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