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| 07.17.2007The Real Most Important Reason For Design Documents
Most of Ernest Adams reasons were production-oriented and not design-oriented. The most important reason to write a design document is to develop the "language" of the design within the minds of the designers - before any consideration of what the team is going to code or build is even arrived at. Language (of any type) is extremely important because it takes effervescent ideas and forms them into structured units; units which can then be recombined to create larger, more explicit and more advanced conceptual frameworks. If you go from an oral mode to execution immediately - or even oral to sparse writing to execution - your conceptual framework is extremely thin and can't lead to output with much depth. This no doubt is one reason there is so much "me-too" derivative design out there: few take the time to develop the internal conceptual language you need to arrive at something really original.-Tim Carter
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