So in my previous post I said that nowadays there are fewer cases when building models before building the actual code of an application makes sense. In which cases does it make sense? More explicitly, in which cases should we spend a significant amount of time creating architecture and design models before we run to code? Let’s ignore for a while safety critical applications and “for other reasons very critical applications”, the easy answer to the question (I know that more and more applications are becoming critical, but still I want to focus on the other ones, at least for this post). My question is equivalent to asking “when do we need significant design up front”?
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Significant Design Up Front, When?
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Agile Methods Versus CMMI?
Thursday, May 7th, 2009It was logical that my first post on the Hexacta blog would be on methodology issues, since this is what I’ve been doing for so many years. And one particular issue that remains very relevant these days is the evolution of agile methods and their contrast with the methods that result from applying models such as CMMI.
On Monday March 18th I was invited to participate in a debate titled “CMMI versus agile methods?” Before the debate, there will be a lecture by Jorge Boria with a very interesting title: “Waterfalls versus Agile and other nonsense”. I don’t know exactly what Jorge is going to say, but the title is very true: sometimes there are false dichotomies that end up being nonsense.
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