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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
To be fair you only need to write the design spec if you are a programmer analyst, some programmers just get instructions.
I have worked with one analyst who laid out the whole design without knowing anything about programming (Surprisingly it was one of the better design specs I've seen).
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True. Analysis is an area which programmers tend to move into as they gain seniority within a company. It's more about seeing "the big picture" and being able to design a solution to solve a problem, whereas programming is the implementation of that solution. Different skillsets.