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Archive for the ‘Development Process’ Category.
The agile approach to software development is all the rage these days. This must be a good thing because when handled well, the flexibility agile methods afford makes for much greater cost effectiveness, for example:
Changes in the business requirements can be handled right up to the very late stages of development
Iterative development, and the [...]
Thanks to John for his comment that asks a couple of questions I should have addressed in my Methodology and Madness - Introducing Process to a Development Group article. John’s questions are:
How do you decide which to solve first?
How long do you leave between introducing each solution?
How Do You Decide Which to Solve [...]
Going back a couple of years, the development group I was contracting in at the time had decided to move out of its present chaotic state and start using a development process. I wonder how well that sentence conveys what they were planning to do? Just to clarify, the plan was this: all permanent development [...]