Comments on: Some Good Specification Practices, or, I Am Out of Clever Titles http://catschwamm.com/2009/11/12/some-good-specification-practices-or-i-am-out-of-clever-titles/ Making good software and building good teams. Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:49:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Using the Right Medium « Gotta Start Somewhere http://catschwamm.com/2009/11/12/some-good-specification-practices-or-i-am-out-of-clever-titles/#comment-35 Using the Right Medium « Gotta Start Somewhere Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:00:31 +0000 http://catsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/some-good-specification-practices-or-i-am-out-of-clever-titles/#comment-35 [...] Using the Right Medium Posted November 13, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | This post was co-written on Google Wave with my colleague Scott C. Reynolds and is a follow up to our previous post about good specification practices. [...] [...] Using the Right Medium Posted November 13, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | This post was co-written on Google Wave with my colleague Scott C. Reynolds and is a follow up to our previous post about good specification practices. [...]

]]> By: Dave http://catschwamm.com/2009/11/12/some-good-specification-practices-or-i-am-out-of-clever-titles/#comment-33 Dave Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:17:35 +0000 http://catsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/some-good-specification-practices-or-i-am-out-of-clever-titles/#comment-33 "MMFs are really handy on our team because our developers can work on stuff in the same areas that they are currently working on" That's an excellent point, Cat. Back in the cold blooded old days of XP, we'd call that working by theme. What goes around (that's good) comes around (and is good). “MMFs are really handy on our team because our developers can work on stuff in the same areas that they are currently working on”

That’s an excellent point, Cat.

Back in the cold blooded old days of XP, we’d call that working by theme. What goes around (that’s good) comes around (and is good).

]]> By: catschwamm http://catschwamm.com/2009/11/12/some-good-specification-practices-or-i-am-out-of-clever-titles/#comment-32 catschwamm Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:12:34 +0000 http://catsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/some-good-specification-practices-or-i-am-out-of-clever-titles/#comment-32 While I see your point, as there are a lot of words like that in our industry, I'm really not concerned about the terminology. MMFs are really handy on our team because our developers can work on stuff in the same areas that they are currently working on; they don't have to context switch and come back later to do things related to another feature. It gets work done faster and better, and we can see large swaths of functionality at a time instead of having to imagine what the rest will look like while we're in a demo. While I see your point, as there are a lot of words like that in our industry, I’m really not concerned about the terminology. MMFs are really handy on our team because our developers can work on stuff in the same areas that they are currently working on; they don’t have to context switch and come back later to do things related to another feature. It gets work done faster and better, and we can see large swaths of functionality at a time instead of having to imagine what the rest will look like while we’re in a demo.

]]> By: Scott Bellware http://catschwamm.com/2009/11/12/some-good-specification-practices-or-i-am-out-of-clever-titles/#comment-31 Scott Bellware Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:00:49 +0000 http://catsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/some-good-specification-practices-or-i-am-out-of-clever-titles/#comment-31 I think this obsession that the software community has with "MMF's" is going to be yet another bit of obsessive/compulsive consultant/speaker lexicon entitlement that will continue to slow down the software community's understanding of managing product development. We can do better than being distracted by yet another orthodoxy. I think we should know by now that this kind of thing is our pattern and our susceptibility. I think this obsession that the software community has with “MMF’s” is going to be yet another bit of obsessive/compulsive consultant/speaker lexicon entitlement that will continue to slow down the software community’s understanding of managing product development. We can do better than being distracted by yet another orthodoxy. I think we should know by now that this kind of thing is our pattern and our susceptibility.

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