Succeeding with Agile

With a written document, we don’t iterate over meaning as we would in conversation

A few years back I read a requirements document that described a Windows Explorer–like interface for managing folders of data. One requirement said, “The name of the folder can be 127 characters.” I was fairly certain that the requirement should have said that the folder name could be a maximum of 127 characters. But this was a bioinformatics application, and there were some unusual requirements such as text fields that could contain only the letters A, C, G, and T. A folder name of exactly 127 characters was a little surprising, but it was not impossible to fathom for this particular application.

Because a specific length was given, I presumed it must have been ...