Business Requirements are Bullshit
Some CEO emailed me the other day. I don't remember who it was; people mail me all the time about their blah blah yawn product service thingy, and on the rare occasions I bother to read mail from strangers, I don't usually remember anything about the email, even if I respond to it. I can remember broad categories of questions I get, but everything else is just a blur. That's senility for ya. But this dude, or possibly dudette, asked me a really good question. One that made an impression. And by "really good", I mean it was one of the flat-out wrong-est business questions you could possibly ask. It was like asking: "How can I get the most out of my overseas child laborer pool?" There's no right answer to a question that's just wrong . But his question, well, people ask it a lot. In fact there are whole books that give answers to this inherently-wrong question. His question was: "Hello, blah blah, I'm the CEO or C-something-O or wh