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Ship it!

by Jared Richardson, William A. Gwaltney
June 2005
Beginner to intermediate
200 pages
5h 32m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Appendix 6Development Methodologies

It sometimes seems as if there are as many different ways to develop software as there are developers. New ones appear all the time. Keep up-to-date with the thought leaders in the field, see what they come up with, and try it in your own shop.

One methodology to avoid: the infamous Waterfall method. This has been universally discredited in more forward-looking development circles, but it’s amazing how many shops still use it. The Waterfall model assumes that you can compeletely understand every phase of your project and set a concrete schedule for each phase. The Waterfall method also expects you to set this schedule before you’ve even started the project! Clueless managers who like schedules have been ...

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