There's one sentence I remember from some Extreme Programming books I read: "the customer only knows what he wants when he gets it"
:-) On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Achim Schneider <bars...@web.de> wrote: > "Richard O'Keefe" <o...@cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote: > > > If you have a low level of trust, you'll need a great level of > > detail, and it still won't help. > > > Heh. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer. > > Freelancing, I was always paid per hour, not per feature. From my > experience, writing something like "The contractor will work closely > with an employee designated by Foo to ensure formal and informal, known > or yet to be discovered, specifications are implemented" is the best > thing you can do. If you have it, mention your QA and its guidelines. > If you don't have it, get both. [1] > > It's more than enough to boot a bad teamplayer out of his contract, > doesn't induce frowns in top coders (SNAFU, as those are the ones you > want to hire), does not risk mis-specifying requirements (which, with > legal backing, is also SNAFU) and doesn't take longer and/or cost more > to work out than the program itself (SNAFU, again). Be sure that not > only bugs are fixed, but the reasons they appeared in the first place, > too: That's the secret people writing space shuttle control software and > similar use. > > > [1] Even if it's just one guy working out things like "Every function > must be documented" and me getting a bug report saying "Help text > does not mention how to display help text". > -- > (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers > for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, > performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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