So we have come full circle. That's the way we have been building software when I was starting with professional software development (this was around 2005). But the idea of doing a thorough analysis (business, technical) is a little bit older. The only people to whom this might come as a surprise are the ones who've drank too much of the "agile Kool-aid". I'm not here to bash agile and start this flame war all over again (agile has it's merits ...), but somehow thinking before doing got a bad rap recently (for reasons beyond me).
It's like software development got trapped inside of King Julian's (from Madagascar movies/series) brain with his modus operandi: "let's start doing this before we figure out it does not make any sense".
It's like software development got trapped inside of King Julian's (from Madagascar movies/series) brain with his modus operandi: "let's start doing this before we figure out it does not make any sense".