Problem: Spreadsheets. Solution: Specifications

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This is a story inspired by true events, about a team and the everyday struggles they faced while building an API defined by spreadsheets and documents. That’s what I did yesterday and the day before and the day before that.Business Analyst: Great, should I let the clients know that it wouldn’t take as long to build it?Developer A: Hold on.

It has all the fields and the values that need to be part of the request body.

She pairs with Developer B, another application developer on her team, to finish the Customer API story. Business Analyst sends them an email with a spreadsheet containing the fields and a document that includes the API currently in development by the downstream API team.

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