Based on the headline, I thought this would be about how software engineering is now most often done in a scattershot--sorry, agile--manner, without documents t

Based on the headline, I thought this would be about how software engineering is now most often done in a scattershot--sorry, agile--manner, without documents that first detail customer requirements, then product specifications, and so on.* By the way, my somewhat sarcastic, somewhat serious rule of thumb is to avoid specs when doing software in-house that I direct and to insist on specs when contracting out work. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model