Almost twenty years ago I worked on a project where an external unnamed “big four consultancy” had written a very long document titled “statement of works” that had about 130 pages.
It described a LOB application for a corporate customer in minute detail. Every form was described with the order of input elements, fonts and font sizes to be used, grouping of fields, you name it, it was there.
We just followed the instructions exactly and after 15 months we delivered the finished application.
These kinds of projects did exist but the specification and requirements phase was long and expensive.
However it required the client to take the time to understand their current business processes and more importantly what they should be and how they wanted them to work.
It was one of the most mundanely boring projects I ever worked on.
It described a LOB application for a corporate customer in minute detail. Every form was described with the order of input elements, fonts and font sizes to be used, grouping of fields, you name it, it was there.
We just followed the instructions exactly and after 15 months we delivered the finished application.
These kinds of projects did exist but the specification and requirements phase was long and expensive.
However it required the client to take the time to understand their current business processes and more importantly what they should be and how they wanted them to work.
It was one of the most mundanely boring projects I ever worked on.