Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Maybe off-topic -- Writing contracts or software specifications

2009-04-15 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
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 wrote: > "Richard O'Keefe" wrote: > > > If you have a low level of trust, you'll need a great level of > >

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Maybe off-topic -- Writing contracts or software specifications

2009-04-14 Thread Achim Schneider
"Richard O'Keefe" 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 w

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Maybe off-topic -- Writing contracts or software specifications

2009-04-13 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On 11 Apr 2009, at 1:40 pm, Maurí cio wrote: But I have an additional concern: to fit in burocracy. I need to write a contract that someone else, who understands just office applications, not software writing, will need to feel safe enough with to sign it. It's not that important to have a good

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Maybe off-topic -- Writing contracts or software specifications

2009-04-10 Thread Maurí­cio
I'm an engineer, and as a programmer I'm just an amateur. This easied things to me, since I could take decisions about practices based on what made sense to me. But now I need to take responsability for some formal programming tasks, and I don't know which examples to follow. I think such a con