Phrases that should set off an alarm in every software developers brain

February 26, 2010 | 0 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

In software development there are some requirements that should immediately trigger all available bells in your subconscious alarming system:

This must be in real-time

The system must support historisation

The system must support multitenancy

The system must provide reports for every screen.

Usually those sentences are just mentioned as side notes or in the small print, as if they go without saying anyway and are the most evident thing in the universe.

But usually they imply a huge communication gap, that can cost buckets of money and bring wagon loads of grief.

Do you know other requirements that fall into the same category?

Update: @asztupak on twitter

It should support all features the previous system had

Update: Comments on Hacker News