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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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Commonly used in engineering and software development, it’s a more structured approach because progress falls in one direction, like a waterfall, from ideation to launch. Design : There are two parts to this phase, including logical design and physical design, all resulting in the software or product architecture.

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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A project isn’t successful just because it has been completed on time and within budget. The Difference Between Quality Assurance and Quality Control. Quality control is more concerned with quality earlier in the project process. Quality control, however, is primarily just focused on process output.

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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

PM Basics

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Concept Development.

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Economics of Software Development

Herding Cats

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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Is Software Development Art or Engineering

Herding Cats

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. The design of the code was straight forward.

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Columns include "Reported," "Confirmed," "In Development," "Testing," and "Deployed."

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

This requires highly controlled experiments where only the level of agility is manipulated in a team. But more outcomes can be considered, like business longevity, the ability to deliver value within budget, and so on. SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. But how can one feasibly do that?

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