Development Methodology

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asif49 9 Posting Whiz in Training

10 Years Ago

What's a good software development methodology to follow for a project where you initially know nothing. So an experimental project where you will need to seek out APIs and so on as you carry out research and figure out what needs to be created.

I'm required to follow a design methodology but Waterfall and all such methods I've looked at require a complete design then implementation. Whereas I would need to design several things, implement them to test which ones work, then possibly redesign again....

Please help!

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stultuske 1,116 Posting Maven

10 Years Ago

that depends on how you want to develop, and usually the right choice for one project, isn't the right choice for another project.

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asif49 9 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 1 · 2014-02-26T22:15:27+00:00

asif49 9 Posting Whiz in Training

10 Years Ago

Some examples would be nice.

stultuske 1,116 Posting Maven Featured Poster · Answer 2 · 2014-02-27T07:01:07+00:00

stultuske 1,116 Posting Maven

10 Years Ago

methodologies

JamesCherrill 4,733 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 3 · 2014-02-27T08:06:55+00:00

I'm a huge fan of Scrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28software_development%29 It's the exact opposite of the useless waterfall approach. It's one of the original Agile class of methodologies.

I worked for Jeff Sutherland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sutherland in Easel in the 90's and everything we did was some kind of variant on scrum. It works.