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A friend’s software startup is all devs, no designers. Devs complain that requirements (“stories”) aren’t defined enough.There’s confusion about who to hire to fix it. “Designer” is too broad, too

Lately, before I start breadboarding or fat-marker sketching, shaping looks like this: a list of things the system should do.This technique goes all the way back to this 2004 piece:

Before pitching a project, there's shaping it.Before shaping it, there's this really hard work where you struggle to define the problem or the opportunity.Need a word for that. It's not