[steeeeeve]

So having clear requirements, a focused purpose for software, and a clear boundary of software responsibility makes for a software development task that can be accomplished?

If only people had figured out at some point that the same thing applies when communicating to human software engineers.

[PoppinFreshDo]

If human software engineers refused to work unless those conditions were met, what a wonderful world it would be.

[intelVISA]

They do implicitly: you can only be accidentally productive without those preconditions.