[Year 12 SofDev] RAD, Agile

[Donna Benjamin]

In the open source programming world, I'm aware of teams using SCRUM and
also codesprints and hackfests or hackathons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(software_development)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon 

But those are focussed around team process there's also a lot of solo
coding going on too so it might be interesting to look at issue queues
and online distributed version control systems.

Perhaps take a look at the Drupal issue queue for insight into
development of a large scale web application.

http://drupal.org/project/issues/

The Drupal project has just released alpha4 of the next major version of
Drupal, so it's a good time to take a look at what's going on there.
Drupal is built on the LAMP stack.

Also worth checking out...
 https://launchpad.net/ 
 http://code.google.com/
 http://github.com/
 http://www.codeplex.com/ 

cheers
Donna


On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 12:54 +1100, Mark KELLY wrote:
> RAD and Agile seem to be missing from the new study design.
> 
> On a similar subject, when we had the Waterfall model of the SDLC as
> our primary system development model, we knew certain things, e.g.
> lock-step progress from phase to phase, and the evil of going
> backwards to a previous step.
> 
> In the new study design the SDLC gives way to the PSM and the design
> gives no rules about the management of the PSM.  It details what is
> done in each step, but no clue about its nature or behaviour, its
> rules and philosophy.
> 
> Google gives no hint of an industry-standard understanding of PSM.
> The first hit for Problem Solving Methodology is my own vceit.com
> page, which doesn't help a lot...
> 
> Are we to assume the PSM should behave like the SDLC?  
> 
> Maybe since RAD and Agile are now gone, it doesn't really matter too
> much...
> 
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