Re:Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long
by VBprogrammer on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:58PM
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To be fair; non-functional requirements as a separate entity are pretty much wank.
If you need a line in a document to tell you that exposing privileged information to the outside world is a bad idea, or that you should make sure the solution you are designing has a reasonable chance of servicing the expected load then you probably shouldn't be a developer.
The last time I seen explicit non-functional requirements the had something like "the solution should have a 99.99% uptime." I realised that our down time for releases (old school I know) was more than that and promptly ignored them.
If you need a line in a document to tell you that exposing privileged information to the outside world is a bad idea, or that you should make sure the solution you are designing has a reasonable chance of servicing the expected load then you probably shouldn't be a developer.
The last time I seen explicit non-functional requirements the had something like "the solution should have a 99.99% uptime." I realised that our down time for releases (old school I know) was more than that and promptly ignored them.