After a few hard years doing development, I realized one thing, you should know what you are developing before you start.  Why?  You end up with crap 80% of the time you didn't need to code.

SO ... who wants to see the internal specification to Visual Studio 2008.  I got a hold of them ... well, actually, they are on MSDN.

So here are some interesting things to note:

• One feature per specification
• They use ample visual, detailed images to help aid in development.  Personally, having a picture makes life so much easier
• Everything is written down
• Questions are highlighted then striked out when finished.
• The specification is as long as it is needed to be.
• On that same note, they can be easily read in under 30 minutes for even the most slow person ( aka me )
• They all follow the same format.  Even when features didn't need a were missing, the section was still there, just blank.

Via Larry Clarkin's blog