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Discussion on: What are the toughest communication challenges in software development?

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Joe Mainwaring

Requirements gathering. Either it’s straight forward and simple to translate into what an engineer needs to accomplish, or it’s complex and likely leaving out an unknown path that won’t be revealed until QA testing or in production.

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TheHighSecond

There is also the situation where the client says something simple. It remains simple during discussions as well and finally, when we get into development, it suddenly becomes a complicated thing requiring x number of extra hours to accomplish.