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This is the first time I've seen the distinction made between waterfall and spiral methodologies, with agile seemingly considered a subset of the spiral model.
by Jd 15y ago
This is the first time I've seen the distinction made between waterfall and spiral methodologies, with agile seemingly considered a subset of the spiral model. Any other resources anyone knows about on this distinction?
- tjpick 15y agoI almost hate to recommend the book, but our standard text was "Pressman's 5th" and that does have a reasonably comprehensive survey of methodologies. You'd be better off borrowing it than buying it. It's not hard to see that agile models are pretty closely related to Boehm's spiral model. The spiral model is (afaik) more general, with the agile models focusing more on specific processes/practices. http://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineering-Practitioners-Roger-Pressman/dp/0073375977/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1314243452&sr=8-2 http://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineering-Practitioners-Rog...
- psykotic 15y agoRapid Software Development by Steve McConnell, the same guy who wrote Code Complete, is a great pre-XP, pre-Agile book on the software development process that covers the waterfall and spiral models, evolutionary prototyping and delivery, and a host of other approaches.