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At Yale, where I am developing a system for the library, I have been
trying to teach folks about the project life-cycle.  I have lots of
books about writing program specs., but nothing about how to develop and
write user requirements.  Not one of the books on my shelf offers an
example of user requirements.  Most books on project management seem to
focus on writing good code, and work under the assumption that the
program will be what the user wants.  Proto-typing can be very costly,
and still may not solve the problem.  Comments??

John W. Kalkbrenner
Sr. Research Programmer
Yale University
johnkal@yalevm