"these things are standard and already spec'ed out" Oh my, forget it. I am a scientist (astronomy) and I write software for my project. Its all standard, but E

"these things are standard and already spec'ed out" Oh my, forget it. I am a scientist (astronomy) and I write software for my project. Its all standard, but EVERY single astronomer that you ask, has a different interpretation of the standards. And everybody has his/her own special reason, why he/she prefers some hacked code from the internet to our beautifully perfect software that even provides guis for standard work. Either it is crappy, or it requires too many resources. And then, scientists don't talk. Our colleagues are sitting in their office, waiting for software developers who can read their minds (it's all standard). It is incredibly hard to get good requirements that are accepted by more than one scientist as good requirements.