Software Best Practices

[quote user="sinnema313"] ...Then, some miscommunication happened. We rewrote a significant part of the product (since it wasn't testable)...[/quote] in my experience, team members and customers don't always communicate with each other as simply and as unambiguously as possible. a verbally...

Have you maintained software whose code bears little resemblance to its design docs and comments? How many times have you seen a detailed and diligently maintained schedule, which is regularly presented to management with lots of green and red highlighting, but which no one in the trenches thinks has...