4.4. You Know You Didn't Understand Inception When...
- It is more than "a few" weeks long for most projects.
- There is an attempt to define most of the requirements.
- Estimates or plans are expected to be reliable.
- You define the architecture (this should be done iteratively in elaboration).
- You believe that the proper sequence of work should be: 1) define the requirements; 2) design the architecture; 3) implement.
- There is no Business Case or Vision artifact.
- All the use cases were written in detail.
- None of the use cases were written in detail; rather, 1020% should be written in detail to obtain some realistic insight into the scope of the problem.