January 16, 2012 - ElegantCode

16 Jan

2012

Origins of the Craft : Iterative / Incremental

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

For your consideration, a paper written by Victor Basili and Albert Turner, Iterative Enhancement : A Practical Technique for Software Development. They make some very good points about iterative feature development, some of which I’d like to call out in this post. Here are some quotes from the paper for your consideration. Quote 1 Building […]

16 Jan

2012

Marines vs. Boy Scouts

By: Chris Brandsma Category:General PostTag: New Post:4 Comments

What I’m talking about here are two styles of development. And this isn’t an “us vs. them”, this is a “me, myself, I and all of yall”. We all use both of these patterns in developing code, and will even switch patterns in the same product from feature to feature. Anyway, here are your definitions: […]