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Documentation is No Substitute for Interaction

Documentation is No Substitute for Interaction

| May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments

I’ve long been of the opinion that involving as many stakeholders in the project as early as possible is a key to successful business analysis, and, more importantly, to successful projects, and have said as much in a few of my posts on this site.

Jim Highsmith, in the book Agile project management : creating innovative products, thinks that the reason projects tend to have so much documentation and so few results is that:

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Functional Specs: Don't write them??

| February 13, 2007 | 0 Comments

“Functional specifications documents lead to an illusion of agreement. A bunch of people agreeing on paragraphs of text is not real agreement. Everyone is reading the same thing, but they’re often thinking something different.”

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