Drowning in waterfall documentation
I’m currently working on a customer project. They started off by sending me a Functional Requirements Specification document, then a Technical Design Specification document (and multiple revs of said doc), and before I’ve even had a chance to digest those docs, there’s now a Change Document.
The Change Document is the same size as the Technical Specifications document. Ugh.
We haven’t even written one line of code yet!
It really makes me appreciate my internal projects, where everyone is co-located in the same room, story cards (which are NOT specifications – they are simply placeholders for conversations), and our focus is on working software.
Update 4/27/07:
Today I received an updated version of the Technical Specifications document. Only this time it was in PDF format, which meant there was no way I could compare it to the previous MS Word version, so I get to slog through it all. again. ugh.
