6 ANALYSIS AND PLANNING
‘If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.’
– Bjarne Stroustrup
This chapter provides an overview of the activities that are essential to the complex role of software developer in analysing and planning a software development.
ANALYSING THE PROBLEM
It’s an undeniable fact: you can’t really solve a problem until you fully understand it.
The process of analysing a problem largely depends on whether there’s an existing system that is being replaced. If it exists, the system, whether manual or automated/electronic, will usually have entered a period of decay – the point at which it no longer works optimally (e.g. it can’t cope with demand) – or it will no longer meet business requirements (it ...
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