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Spolsky on Writing Specs

August 18th, 2005 | In Quotes | Comments Off

The reason you write a spec is not to solve every possible problem in advance: the reason you write a spec is to solve as many problems as you possibly can in advance so that you minimize the number of surprises that come up during development.
–Joel Spolsky
- talking about Copilot.com spec

Reference:Blog entry about The Project Aardvark Spec by Joel Spolsky

Related:The original spec (pdf) by Joel Spolsky

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