Re: Full life cycle development

James D Carroll wrote:
>
> Phlip .
> >
> > However, in real life, developers who are not as smart as you or I tend
> > to re-invent Waterfall naturally. They code-and-fix, discover new
> > requirements, and discover their code is now brittle. So they say, "The
> > next time, we will gather all the requirements first, before we start."
> >
> > I have heard them say exactly that, with my own ears.
>
> Sure you have. Its called "Extreme Programming".

Read the other posts here very carefully. Nobody, not even the anti-XP
zealots, advocates collecting all requirements up front. Some of the
earliest big software projects, such as aerospace projects, used strict
iterations. They collected requirements in real-time.

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Phlip
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