July 20, 2010
The team’s development process defines who is doing what, when, and how.
In the waterfall model, software activities proceed through a sequence of steps, with each step based on the activities of the previous step.
The spiral model begins with a series of risk-driven prototypes, followed by a structured waterfall-like process.
The iterative approach, a hybrid of the waterfall and spiral models, decouples the lifecycle phases from the software activities that take place in each phase.
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July 14, 2010
One of the most frustrating, pervasive, and seemingly downright sinister problems in all of application development is the “Yes, But” syndrome, being the observation of the users’ reaction to every piece of software I have ever developed.
For whatever reason, I always observe two immediate, distinct, and separate reactions when the users see the system implementation for the first time:
• “Wow, this is so cool; we can really use this, what a neat job, atta boy,” and so on.
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October 1, 2009
Basic Software Development Process:
Defining the requirements. Approval. Template designs. Template approval. Coding. Internal release. Testing. Alpha release. Beta release. Project goes live. This is the process I follow.