Writing specs is like flossing: everybody agrees that it's a good thing, but nobody does it.

Learn all about writing specs by reading my 4-part series.

The final article in my series on specs talks about how to write good specs that people want to read.

Coming next week: how to write specs!

The biggest complaint you'll hear from teams that do write specs is that "nobody reads them."

In this fourth and final part of the series I'll share some of my advice for writing good specs.

At your typical big, bureaucratic company, everybody spends months and months writing boring specs.

Here's why I think that programmers have trouble writing good specs.

Programmers often try to write specs which look like dense academic papers.

I wrote specs for the work that I was doing during the day.