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Demos, not memos!

An interesting story over at 37signals’ blog about a company/site that was started against someone’s better judgment because the people involved saw a working version of the site not a requirements document!My favourite quote: 1. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. Execution is hard. 2. Meetings suck. 3. Requirements documents suck. Read it. You owe it …

Vasco Duarte 4 May 2009 1 min read Teams

An interesting story over at 37signals’ blog about a company/site that was started against someone’s better judgment because the people involved saw a working version of the site not a requirements document!
My favourite quote:

1. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. Execution is hard.
2. Meetings suck.
3. Requirements documents suck.

Read it. You owe it to yourself!

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