Name
Abstract | ||
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Software development methodologies advocated and used today, whether traditional and plan-based or contemporary and agile, usually focus on process steps i.e. they start with requirements and iteratively describe what steps are necessary to move to the next stage or phase, until the software application is delivered to the end user. Such a process-oriented view of methodologies, based on the metaphor that human organizations are ''machines'' that ''execute'' processes, often results in methodologies that are too rigid and hard to follow, and most often than not end up being ignored or bypassed. Our proposal here is that, since the ultimate aim of software development is to provide a software product, software development methodologies should be described in terms of the intermediate products that are necessary to reach such a final product, plus the needed micro-processes that, as necessary evils, will be required to produce the appropriate work products from other, previously created ones. Using this product-oriented approach, software development methodologies can be specified that are, at least, as flexible as lightweight, agile approaches and, at the same time, as powerful and scalable as plan-oriented ones. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2008 | 10.1016/j.jss.2007.10.001 | Journal of Systems and Software |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
appropriate work product,software application,software development,methodology specification,enactment,software development methodologies,work product pool approach,agile approach,software product,necessary evil,metamodelling,software development methodology,end user,final product,intermediate product,iso/iec 24744 | Personal software process,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Package development process,Computer science,Lean software development,Requirement,Software development process,Empirical process (process control model),Software construction,Software development | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
81 | 8 | The Journal of Systems & Software |
Citations | PageRank | References |
10 | 0.52 | 32 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cesar Gonzalez-Perez | 1 | 495 | 31.78 |
| Brian Henderson-Sellers | 2 | 1835 | 163.16 |