admiral-akbar-on-requirements.md

Admiral Akbar on Requirements

(picture of the big fish) (caption; "It's a trap!")

Market risks

• "The only product with _____" vs. "Like other quality products, it includes _____."

Technical risks

• Cross-cutting concern

  • Undo/redo
  • Version control
  • Comments and discussion
  • Voting
  • Collaborative filtering
  • Collaborative editing
  • Authorization

• Home-grown framework

  • Supplanted by open framework
  • Just like choosing the "wrong" framework, except it's nearly alway sthe wrong framework

• Design pattern

  • Everyone has to use the pattern

• Unobtrusive pattern

  • everyone has to understand how the magic works