Steve's Primer of Practical Persuasion and Influence is a well writen clever guide to the fine art of getting people to do wha tyou want them to.
In The Speed of Information Architecture, Peter Morville once again chastises us to slow down.
He then continues on to introduce different sort of classification techniques is lovely clear terms, weighing their effectivness, and then points out the "slow" methods are the effective ones.
Once again, the early bird gets the worm... but who wants to eat worms? Slow and steady wins the race.
Functional Spec Tutorial :: What and Why
"By creating a blueprint of the application first, time and productivity are saved during the development stage. "
Just what I always say!
Extremely useful article full of good *practical* ideas and justifications for why you do it.