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It's an educational experience for sure, and has some bearing on how we build software. Imagine using scrum to develop an F18. Or a heart monitor you strap to y
by Spearchucker 13y ago
It's an educational experience for sure, and has some bearing on how we build software. Imagine using scrum to develop an F18. Or a heart monitor you strap to your wide to monitor your kid's heart beat during labour. How stable or even coherent would Excel be if it was built using eXtreme Programming?
- icebraining 13y agoYes, but the hypothetical wife wouldn't ask for the monitor to be improved with new features. While she was in labour.
- Spearchucker 13y agoShe'd be asking(?) for drugs, you're right. However the hapless father who can't do anything but look on would.
- bane 13y agoWhat's interesting is that in the early days of the jet age, fast protyping and testing was the norm when designing new aircraft. The dozens of experimental planes from that age are fascinating stuff.
- Spearchucker 13y agoPrototyping is a technique that addresses some of the shortfalls in waterfall. Amusingly, other than names for things there is nothing new in agile methodologies like scrum and XP. They've been around since the early '80s. If you're into process, try and get your hands on a copy of (it's a mouthful) - Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catolog of Modern Engineering Paradigms: A Catalogue of Modern Software Engineering Paradigms (Yourdon Press Computing), by Peter DeGrace and Leslie Hulet Stahl. http://www.amazon.com/dp/013590126X http://www.amazon.com/dp/013590126X.