If you separate yourself from the distractions you typically see when analyzing business requirements you quickly realize that they are usually fairly simple. You may or may not have to consume some input. You may or may not have to produce some output. That is all! This means that implementing and testing the actual requirements should be significantly more straightforward than what most developers experience in real life. And then there is another set of distractions where many developers come up with a complete design of a solution to a requirement, now treating such a solution as a requirement. Without realizing that their design is not the requirement they miss out on the simpler and better solution. What are those distractions, how to spot them, and how Spring can help you deal with them?