As ever Dilbert nicely fleshes out the ongoing disparity between what business people say and do and what they actually mean !

This is always an interesting subject for me…in almost every meeting I attend where you’re actioned you end up clarifying the actual ‘meaning’ of the requirements or action point. Now this isn’t always just down to slap-dash, hurried or unclear specification or req’t gathering…more often than not it’s down to ‘meaning’ or context or even what the specifier actually had going on in their head at the time they specified the work and did they adequately convey this meaning into consistent, unabiguous statements that are free from interpretation ?

Then of course in a dynamic and evolving business env’t how does one keep the specification ahead of the requirement ? ;D That’s for another time !!