Obviously mastering the technical aspects of software development are important. However, hopefully as you’ve seen from the class already, there is more to it than just “coding”. The book outlines 7 traits that they feel are necessary to be a good software engineer. Individual Responsibility Works to deliver on promises they make to their peers,…
Sometimes called (XP), it is one of the most used forms of agile programming. The XP Process Planning – also called the planning game, begins with listening, to build user stories of what the user expects to do (what output will be generated, features, and functionality). The user develops these stories and then assigns each…
Agile software tries to address a couple of key components. By continual adaptation we can hopefully better manage the unpredictability of the software building process. We do so by making adaptable changes. The 12 Agile Principles: Agile Like? Too often however, people do “agile like” development. Something that utilizes a part of agile, or they…
Agile development has been around for only about 20 years. While this seems like a lot of time, but given that we use either no method, or old fashioned methods for 60+ years, and some places still use (or don’t use) them, it makes Agile still relatively new and a lot of people afraid of…
Software doesn’t write itself, yet, and despite some people’s attempts. Therefore any process model needs to consider the individuals and teams that will be working on the project. The company must be willing and able to adapt and adopt a process model mindset if they are going to be successful. If they do not, they…
The Unified Process (UP) builds upon the classic processes and tries to incorporate the best parts of agile frameworks at the same time. UML – Unified Modeling Language, contains a robust methodology for modeling an object oriented system. UML is used throughout Part 2 of the book Phases of the Unified Process Similar to the…
Specialize Process Models may take on one more characteristics of the previous models, however they are applied when a specialized software engineering approach is chosen. Component Based Development This model is similar to the spiral model in that it is evolutionary in nature, however some of the step specifics vary. Formal Methods Model Formal methods…
Prescriptive Process Models strive for structure and order in software development. They tend to occur sequentially with defined guidelines, however they may not be the most effective for changing systems. Waterfall The waterfall method, sometimes called the classic life cycle, is one of the best known prescriptive process models. Each step move you forward and…
