Book description
Designed for advanced professional, technical or business writing courses, this concise text covers basic principles, correspondence and reports, and provides a guide to common problems.
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1 author picked How to Write for the World of Work as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
When people think about software engineering they mostly think about programming, but that’s not where a project starts. It starts with requirements.
(Really it sometimes starts with company politics, bickering, excuses, and backstabbing, but requirements gathering is often the official start.)
A good set of requirements keeps developers pulling in the same direction; a bad one can make the team inefficient, cause endless arguments, set developers against each other, and make the project feel like Lord of the Flies. I’ve seen projects scrapped and restarted from scratch or even canceled due to poor documentation.
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