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There’s Nothing Functional about a Functional Spec
- Don’t write a functional specifications document
Functional specs are fantasies
Functional specs are about appeasement
- make everyone feel involved
- Functional specs only lead to an illusion of agreement
- people interpret words differently
- Functional specs force you to make the most important decisions when you have the least information
- Functional specs lead to feature overload
- easy to add bullet points
Functional specs don’t let you evolve, change,and reassess
- Specs don’t deal with the reality that once you start building something, everything changes.
Write a one page story about what the app needs to do.
- Follow the process
- paper sketch
- html
- code
- Stay flexible
Don’t Do Dead Documents
- Eliminate unnecessary paperwork
- Build, don’t write.
- Documents that live separately from your application are worthless.
Tell Me a Quick Story
- Write stories, not details
Use Real Words
- Insert actual text instead of lorem ipsum
- You need real copy to know
- how long certain fields should be
- how tables will expand or contract
- what your app truly looks like
Personify Your Product
- What is your product’s personality type?
- Think of your product as a person. What type of person do you want it to be?
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