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Sundance Kid wrote: Business can't decide.
In my experience it is usually less that the business can't decide and more that the business doesn't know. They think they want the program to do what they call "X" but in reality it is more "Y".
The job of a good BA/BRM/PM/etc. is figuring out what "Y" actually is.
Sundance Kid wrote: then they change their minds.
This is what I hate about 'agile' development. The business side tries to use it as an excuse to not think out their actual requirements.
Sundance Kid wrote: they give 1 liner specs
Your BA/BRM/PM/etc. is failing the development team. This should not be an acceptable response to any spec request. As far as pet peeves, this goes right up on there with "Doesn't work" for details in a bug report.
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Quote: The job of a good BA/BRM/PM/etc. is figuring out what "Y" actually is.
That is the problem here.. not good BA/Product Owners etc. 
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Well, you could have the alternative. No BA and the developer is expected to work directly with the customers and product owners to perform all of the BA/PM/Architect/Designer/Dev/Tester roles.
On the plus side, it has really rounded out my skill set and expanded my options in the job market.
The bad part is that I don't officially have any of those those titles so HR types don't care what I actually know.
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If I had to work directly with customers I would run away... far far away.
This is too much work for 1 person/dev. You would never deliver anything. And we have many customers (> 10 on 1 "product").
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Spot on - I've suffered through too many one-liner "specs", along with CXO's and senior management changing their minds more often in a day then they change their underwear in a month.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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There are apps for anything, and they are all invariably useless except for a handful of them, which are ugly. I prefer working in other fields.
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"All of the above" 
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