Johanna Rothman, in in her product development blog talks about when a spec should freeze. She basically said "specs never freeze, people communicate about what they want all the time".
What caught my eye was one commenter that said "There is always a point at which the spec must freeze; otherwise, either quality will suffer in some way, or the wrong functionality may not be delivered". That's kind of true, but the problem is not with the lack of spec freeze.
What caught my eye was one commenter that said "There is always a point at which the spec must freeze; otherwise, either quality will suffer in some way, or the wrong functionality may not be delivered". That's kind of true, but the problem is not with the lack of spec freeze.
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