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by cratermoon 295 days ago
The chances of user->pm->engineer communication introducing ambiguities or inaccuracies approaches 100%. That's simply human nature and the nature of communication. There's a reason why agile programming has stressed "on site user": the programmers need to hear what the users are saying directly, and the users need rapid feedback on what the programmer thinks vs what the user meant.