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Re:Joel Spolsky On Why He Is Quitting Blogging by barredo on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @07:05PM (#1162935)
I'm sorry but you lost me at 'BDUF', what does it mean? (Google results seems to agree on "Big Design Up Front" but I still do not understand)
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Re:Joel Spolsky On Why He Is Quitting Blogging by goof on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @08:17PM (#1163051)
Yeah, he's referring to Big Design Up Front. It just means doing specs and schedules instead of PG style exploratory programming.

e.g. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html

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