http://blogs.msdn.com/b/coolbeans/archive/2007/08/17/pm-anti-magic.aspx…Program Managers on the other hand have anti-magic. A PM walks into a developer’s office to see something and BOOM! suddenly nothing works. The other day I was trying to demo a new feature. Everything worked fine but then the PM had to say “So doesen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/coolbeans/archive/2007/08/17/pm-anti-magic.aspx#4436844Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:12:50 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4436844Chris Becker<p>Yes, functional requirements should be.</p> <p>However it's usually up to a designer to choose how icons and some other things will look. The designers generally can't do any work until the project is closer to being finished and an overall look and feel vision has been established based on what features we've added.</p> <p>So it's usually up to the dev to put in some kind of placeholder for the time being. But right on cue someone will shout about how it's ugly. :)</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4436844" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/coolbeans/archive/2007/08/17/pm-anti-magic.aspx#4436780Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:03:49 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4436780TechHairBall<p>Shouldn't all the stated requirements be covered in the scope docs? All such questions should not arise.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4436780" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/coolbeans/archive/2007/08/17/pm-anti-magic.aspx#4435959Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:56:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4435959MSDN Blog Postings » PM Anti-Magic<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/08/17/pm-anti-magic-2/">http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/08/17/pm-anti-magic-2/</a></p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4435959" width="1" height="1">