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Choosing Software Development Methods

This document discusses and compares several software development methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum), Rapid, and Spiral. It provides an overview of each methodology, including their life cycles, suitable project types, advantages, and disadvantages. It also includes a comparison table that contrasts the different methodologies based on criteria like life cycle, suitable project types, pros, and cons. The document aims to help readers understand popular software development methodologies and how to select the proper one based on their project's needs, time, and budget.

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Choosing Software Development Methods

This document discusses and compares several software development methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum), Rapid, and Spiral. It provides an overview of each methodology, including their life cycles, suitable project types, advantages, and disadvantages. It also includes a comparison table that contrasts the different methodologies based on criteria like life cycle, suitable project types, pros, and cons. The document aims to help readers understand popular software development methodologies and how to select the proper one based on their project's needs, time, and budget.

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Software Development

Methodologies

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User requirement

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Why we have to choose?
• Avoid risk
• The sooner, the better

How to select proper method ?


• Search, Compare, Select
• Match with time and budget

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Software Development Methodologies
(well-known)

• Waterfall
• Agile (scrum)
• Rapid
• Spiral

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Waterfall

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Agile-Scrum

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Rapid Application Development

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Spiral Model

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Comparison
Point of View Waterfall Agile(Scrum) Rapid Spiral
Life cycle Sequential Iterative-Incremental Quick-Iterative Sequencial-Iterative
Suitable Project with precise needs Changing-requirement Less-time needed, Large, Expensive,
Project Needed Component-based, Complicated, high-risk
low-risk
Pro’s - Easy to understand - Can handle changing- - Makes the entire - Suitable for highly
- Saves significant amount requirement in last development risky project
of time minute process effortless - Risk factors are
- Allows for easy testing - Find and fix defects - Encourages considerably reduced
and analysis quickly feedback from
- Identifying mismatches improvement
early

Con’s - Not applicable for - Minimum - Costly - Costly


maintenance project documentation - Need more - Need high-skilled
- Not excellent for long - Not suitable for big- resource team
and ongoing project sized projects - Time as limit - Failure in analysis
phase damage the
whole project
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Acknowledgement
• Britton, Carol and Doake , Jill (1993) Software System Development. A
gentle introduction. McGraw-Hill Book Company Europe
• [Link]
methodologies-9b
• Slide presentation of Dr. Jean-Claude Franchitti. Computer Science
Department. New York University.

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