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[Term] BDUF or BUDF [Description] 
Big Up-Front Design – a problem with many large corporate institutions that sometimes require a 100 – 1000 page document full of business requirement before any software construction gets the green lightSome poor architect or business analyst will have spent weeks investigating and chatting to the business about the requirement, only for the development team to say the document is practically worthless. Antidote: Get the technical lead and some key developers talking with the business and the analysts and the customer. Ideation sessions everybody!Symptom: Waterfall methodology and aspects of the investment banking IT culture Antidote: Unknown, lots of people how tried to bring “Agile” with both a big A and small A to many of these institutions with some success and failure
Peter Pilgrim :: Java Champion :: Enterprise Blog » Agile Software Developer Terminology for New Programmers
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