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The Software Building Activity
This "waterfall" process has many problems, and "a more iterative approach is needed to reduce the risk and gain the necessary speed." [Shultz 9406]
- Time between feedback points is too long for today's market
demands.
- "Defects," whether in concept, requirements, design, or
coding, are by definition
not caught until near the end of the process.
- Relatively few opportunities exist for improving the product in ways
that were not
initially identi ed in the requirements phase.
Let's "take it from the top," this time using a spiral (or iterative, or incremental, or Boehm*) process. It looks identical at the top; the activity is to use your staff and capital to solve a problem to spec by producing a software product, within schedule and budget constraints.
* We don't take part in the "methodology wars," feeling it is more important to do things differently than to obsess over the nuances between different methodologies, since the whole thing must be customized to some extent anyway. Some don't like the word "spiral" because it is associated with an uncontrolled "death spiral," some argue the differences between "iterative" and "incremental." [Cohen 93] We use the term "spiral" to encompass the common traits of multiple feedback loops, short time before feedback, and continuous attention to things normally relegated to project phases, such as testing, documentation, and integration.
