Everyone has their myths that they believe when it comes to software development. Here we look at some of these myths and determine what are some of the best/worst of them. (And yes, I’ve actually heard people say most of these, and then some.) Management Myths These are myths that managers believe and tell people:…
Understanding the Problem It’s easy to assume you understand the problem/what is needed, but that is a false belief in many cases. To get a better idea, look at answering the following questions: Planning a Solution To Build the solution, you need to Plan the Solution: Building from the Plan Building from the plan is…
Process Framework This is the general framework which is used to define how a project will be built and deployed. Umbrella Activities Under the Framework activities are a number of umbrella activities to help manage and control progress, quality, change, and risk. Often people will use tools, or assume that a tool is what solves…
As software’s importance has grown, the software community has continually attempted to develop technologies that will make it easier, faster, and less expensive to to build and support high-quality computer programs. Because of the complexity of the multitude of domains in both how and where software is developed, the odds of finding a unifying method…
Most of the time, if you ask someone how a web browser works, they will say it is used to display a web page. A slightly more technical answer might be, it downloads a web page and associated files, and displays it based upon the HTML codes. While this is correct, it is correct only…
Software Engineering isn’t an “Advanced form of Programming”. Rather it is the idea and processes of how to properly design, develop, and deliver a software product. Without proper guidelines and processes, software project can be delivered late, without all the features, over cost, or a combination of those options. Software is found everywhere in our…
The senior project is designed to bring together a lot of different class topics together into a single project as you could expect in a real world scenario. There is a collection of potential projects to choose from that have been pre-vetted to make sure that different classes information will be collected and used. If…
You will demonstrate your completed project before a selection of your peers and other professors of the college. During this demonstration you should include: A demo of the project Explain how you solved problems that arose during the project Identify any interesting solutions that you devised while building the project. Who makes up the target…
