Hehehe ...to avoid those uncomfortable moments months later when they say "OK, now we want to add X and put this baby live on the Internet"? And the programmers reply "Uhh... couldn't you have told us this 'before' we did it all with UDP instead of TCP"? ;) maggie >Jenn V said: >Then TALK WITH the coders. Say 'the client seems to want X, Y and Z; >with A, B and C to follow later on'. Get THEIR input in the design. >Involve them from the start. Promise to get back to them with a >rough design within a certain time frame. Do that. Get their review of >the design - they'll have been thinking about it too. >Rinse and repeat till you have a design you and they can all live with. >Freeze that document - snapshot the spec & design docs at this point. -- _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk