So you decide you want a way for a number of people to post short articles to a Web site, and maybe allow for other people to leave comments. What do you do? That’s easy: jump to the white board and start sketching out a vast array of boxes, blobs, and arrows that define a sophisticated content management system with multi-level admin roles, content versioning, threaded discussion boards, syntax highlighting, the works.

Right?

Don’t be too quick to judge. It’s easy to fall into the trap of defining the wrong requirements for a project.