
The Curse of the Casual Requirement is a classic thriller guaranteed to scare the pants off of programmers everywhere. It’s a bit of a sleeper, though, as the scary stuff doesn’t happen in the beginning. Unlike most mysteries with the good guys winning in the end and the blame falling on the butler, in our little story the good guys lose and they never really could afford a butler to begin with. The software development process begins with an idea for a program. This idea is typically about as fuzzy as those socks that get lost behind the washing machine. When the programmers first get wind of management’s desire for new software, only two p..
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