BDUF

I can’t tell you how strongly I believe in Big Design Up Front, which the proponents of Extreme Programming consider anathema. I have consistently saved time and made better products by using BDUF and I’m proud to use it, no matter what the XP fanatics claim. They’re just wrong on this point and I can’t be any clearer than that.

You go boy.

Joel Spolsky, of JoelOnSoftware.com fame has posted the functional spec for Project Aardvark. Project Aardvark was the software product built in 1 summer by a team of interns.