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The writing of user manuals before development sounds an awful lot like waterfall :)

• Crespyl 8y ago
  It's really not a bad way to build something when you already know for certain exactly what you need to build.
  • ljw1001 8y ago
    It could be a good way to build something when you don't know what you're building. Writing a user manual is cheaper than coding, but may force you to get pretty explicit about what the user experience will be like.
  • kchr 8y ago
    And, maybe even more important; why you created it.
• hawkice 8y ago
  User manuals are (ideally) not technical documents. It shouldn't imply any specific system design if it doesn't have to.
• kchr 8y ago
  Agreed. But a README does not have to be an entire manual; you could start with describing the program and your intentions with it, a long with basic operations. :-)