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Originally Posted by PhildVegas  so-cal-gal,
You give the most informative, fact-laden responses. Just out of curiosity, are/were you part of the business?
I'm sending all future questions to you directly.  |
Many thanks for your comments! I would have to say this is/was not my actual business.
I'm a former Lead Software Engineer with over 30 years of progressive experience. Laid off in '06.
Concurrently a landlord from '88 on.
My work ranged from rapid-prototype where you had few, if any, written requirements, to full-blown, 'tons of paper' programs/systems. With the rapid-prototyping, you had to listen to the description, participate in discussions and take in all information that the program lead had available. Solutions went from white-board to a working prototype quickly.
The opposite end of the spectrum was the work on the huge shipboard systems. Reading government requirements documents, understanding them and designing software that satisfied the INTENDED requirements was my training ground. I obviously had to write documents also. Following the details of requirements specifications that stretched to many volumes, and pulling the details together in the software design and implementation is tedious work. Finding conflicting or unclear requirements and getting concise language inserted was always part of the task.