Spec-Driven Development Isn’t Waterfall — But It Keeps Ending Up There

Spec-driven development promises control through living, iterative specifications. But without clear workflows and better tooling, teams keep falling into the same big-design-upfront trap that agile was invented to escape. A practitioner’s honest take on the gap between SDD’s vision and its current reality.

Spec-Driven Development Isn’t Waterfall — But It Keeps Ending Up There