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It's often a mistake to think that a human can describe his requirements. People don't really know what they want. No one could have gone to Steve Jobs and sa
by hasenj 16y ago
It's often a mistake to think that a human can describe his requirements.
People don't really know what they want.
No one could have gone to Steve Jobs and said, hey, I want a phone that can read mail, play music, download apps, and has a touch screen.
No one thinks in these terms.
At best, people would say: I want a device that I can carry around with me that can act as a small computer.
There's a wide and huge gap between "creating great products" and "gathering user requirements".
- gfodor 16y agoAn improved means of communication would not presume to solve the problem of humans being unable to precisely describe requirements. The point is right now the status quo is that people are unable to describe the requirements to a satisfactory degree of precision, for those that they do have the ability to describe. Note that this means of communication can apply not just to third parties but to those within the organization (designers, product people) who need a means to describe their own, more specific vision in terms that can be then used by programmers to turn into working software.