Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Setting Up Projects and Processes

Our first iteration is all about getting things ready for all of the following iterations, and for any development efforts after the project is initially complete—bug fixes, maintenance, new feature requests, and so on. This sort of preparation will need to be undertaken for any new development effort over a certain expected degree of complexity, but it may not be broken out into its own iteration. Creating many of the foundational structures could be managed as part of other iterations;creating the project's structure when the first development that needs it starts, for example. The trade-off that's tied into taking that approach is that there is a higher probability that early definition work will have ...