Lt Wuff's Journal: Specs

Why won't people write specs? I just don't get it. People claim that it's because they're saving time by skipping the spec-writing phase. They act as if spec-writing was a luxury reserved for NASA space shuttle engineers, or people who work for giant, established insurance companies.

The software is ALWAYS going to have a specification...the choice is if it's going to be written or just sitting around in some developers head.