As a programmer who has had to maintain and enhance systems that were
written apparently based on a one-page spec that "everyone on the team"
understood, when the team members are no longer there, and the documentation
was all between their ears (and left with them), I am a big believer in
detailed written specs that get turned into test plans and then into
documentation.
Eventually the lack of specs turns around and bites the organization that
allowed it to happen (unless the application was a one-time quick-and-dirty
project that will never have to be resurrected).
Susan Lynch
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Sent: 10/14/2009 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [U2] Unibasic: Sample program - to extract data from Table
Alleluia! Brother!
Jerry Banker
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Symeon Breen
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [U2] Unibasic: Sample program - to extract data from Table
Exactly - i still stick to the belief that a small team of highly skilled
programmers will code quicker from a single page spec than a thousand low
quality coders using a high detail spec. Many an institution disagrees, or
rather has been stung by smaller teams giving promises that they can then
not deliver, I suppose this is what bureaucracy is all about, something
simple runs perfectly until someone slips up, then all hell breaks loose
and
15 procedures are put into place and before you know it you have a team of
20 doing what one guy did all on his own.
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