Sharing the Love – 2007-04-01

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As evidenced by my last couple entries, I’m the type of guy that, when I find a good thing, likes to share. Here is some more good stuff from around the Web that I’ve come across lately and wanted to post for the use of others who are interested in the types of subject matter I try to cover here.

• The Reuse Model

  The basic premise behind the Reuse Model is that systems should be built using existing components, as opposed to custom-building new components. The Reuse Model is clearly suited to Object-Oriented computing environments, which have become one of the p

  (tags: methodology reuse)

• Lost Garden: Software Development’s Evolution towards Product Design

  Entertaining article and PDF diagram describing:
  * The evolution of software development over four distinct eras.
  * The key goals of software development and our saddest failures
  * Where software development is moving in the future.

  (tags: development requirements methodology humor analysis)

• Lost Garden: Rockets, Cars and Gardens: Visualizing waterfall, agile and stage gate

  A little pictorial journey through the intriguing landscapes of waterfall, agile, portfolio management and stage gate. For fun, there is also a description of how you can apply portfolio management techniques to individual agile project as a technique for

  (tags: agile waterfall development methodology process sdlc)

• Adobe edits the development cycle | Reg Developer

  For years the Adobe Photoshop team has been trying to get away from the traditional death march to a more agile development style. For its CS3 release, it made the jump, with the help of VP Dave Story. The result? More weekends off, and a third fewer bugs

  (tags: methodology process development testing agile waterfall sdlc)

• Use case driven object modelling with UML: Theory and practice | Reg Developer

  While the methodology wars continue to flourish, and advocates of this process versus that process slug it out to show that they alone are following the one true path, there is one technique that all seem to agree on: the use case.However, once you’ve g

  (tags: usecase UML)

• Methodology.org for eBusiness Development & Programming

  Methodology.org provides a vast amount of methodology resources, documents, and tools. It has been designed specifically to bridge the gap between methodology scholars and today’s rapid development professionals.

  (tags: methodology sdlc)