> But if you're doing agile properly, you shouldn't consider a user story a 'spec' - a user story should be a placeholder for a conversation. Yep. It almost so

> But if you're doing agile properly, you shouldn't consider a user story a 'spec' - a user story should be a placeholder for a conversation. Yep. It almost sounded like this article was saying "you're not waterfalling hard enough". Processes are not a substitute for human interaction, they are supposed to enable human interaction.