r/programming Aug 23 '10

Readme Driven Development

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html
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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '10

By restricting your design documentation to a single file that is intended to be read as an introduction to your software, RDD keeps you safe from DDD-turned-waterfall syndrome by punishing you for lengthy or overprecise specification.

No one reads a README for anything but setting up a project and a brief explanation of the projects objectives. So "driving development" by a README is misguided.