Gee, when do we actually build the site?

"It is critical to remember that the scope of the project must be carefully managed throughout the process or you are almost guaranteed to miss your budgetary and timeline constraints."

Sorry, this is just boring drivel.

Steve Yegge has a different view -- "Business Requirements Are Bullshit" (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirement...)

Amen to that. There's probably a diagram somewhere to go with that.

Wait.

Here it is. http://www.businessballs.com/treeswing.htm

On a related note; that drivel like this still gets upvoted at HN means either that it's fairly easy to spam with fake accounts, or that the upvoting system lets a lot of crap through.

Even the title is a mouthful.

A more correct title would be "a short introduction to the waterfall methodology".

Seems to be an essay written with the sole purpose of promoting the author's company. Googling some of the more unique sentences shows that the text has been posted several places on the net.