Coward

Coward for having his own opinion? So anyone who doesn’t agree with you is a coward?

On all the agile projects I’ve worked on, the teams have been very reluctant to make a specification in place before starting development. Often claiming that we can’t know the requirements up-front, because we’re agile.

Article is from 2016

Since the “new” version it has been shit. Typical big enterprises to break something the users like.

Are there any online collectives that work together to stop this tomfoolery?

Same as it has been for the last 100 years: Vote with your money. If you don’t like the product/service, don’t buy it. Stop thinking you can force them to change their offering.

Missing perhaps the most important skill: Human to human communication, allowing you to:

• Discover the real requirements for your task by talking to the end user/stakeholder.
• Be able to propose and discuss alternatives to the requested solution, after you learn the real requirements.
• Clearly and timely communicate obstacles that occur during any phase in the project.

I suspect it is missing because most developers, myself included, dislike human communication. We like computers because they give us honest and logical answers.