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Discussion on: Don't be a Shotgun Coder

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Sandor Dargo

I agree with most of the points, but here I need some clarification.

you didn't understand the big picture, all the features, or exactly what the end goal was?

Are you advocating for waterfall? (Which has its own merits and use-cases by the way)

While the big picture is important, it's rarely possible to understand up-front everything, all the features and the end goal exactly, when even the customers don't know what exactly they want.

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Daniel Starner

I'm not really a purist for either Waterfall vs Scrum/Agile, and I wasn't actually thinking of project management when writing this post. I approach this mentality when it comes to solving problems, where people jump in with coding a solution before they even understand the problem.

Thanks for pointing out that it draws some heavy similarities though!