One of the reasons that the classic gather requirements, design, code, ship approach doesn’t work is that it is anchored by the concept that we know what the requirements are. But we rarely do. Your business users will have a vague idea of what they want to achieve, but they neither know nor care about the details. That’s part of our value: we intuit intent and convert it to code. So when you force a business person to sign off on a requirements document, or get them to agree to a set of Cucumber features, you’re doing the equivalent of getting them to check the spelling in an essay written in
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