23.2 Plan-driven development
Plan-driven or plan-based development is an approach to software engineering where the development process is planned in detail. A project plan is created that records the work to be done, who will do it, the development schedule, and the work products. Managers use the plan to support project decision making and as a way of measuring progress. Plan-driven development is based on engineering project management techniques and can be thought of as the “traditional” way of managing large software development projects. Agile development involves a different planning process, discussed in Section 23.4, where decisions are delayed.
The problem with plan-driven development is that early decisions have to be revised because ...
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