What a sad way to hammer someone’s view of his profession based on a comment. > You can’t get them up front because no one has any idea what we are looking for

What a sad way to hammer someone’s view of his profession based on a comment. > You can’t get them up front because no one has any idea what we are looking for. Is this requirement implementation or R&D? While it’s understandable for R&D to be exist within the ‘no one has any idea what we are looking for’, to fit all software development into this paradigm is to have a pretty lax understanding of how most software operates... > Solving a small problem usually reveals more of the problem This is exactly what I think the parent post was arguing when shying away from estimates.