Eugene,
I believe you just described the "waterfall" (a bad characterization, if I
may say so), as I have. I believe I mentioned that the whole process is
iterative. You have added emphasis on the release early, release often
approach. We agree on that.
What you are describing is much closer to Directed Evolution, perhaps the
most appropriate way to design and build stuff. In any case, the process
must preceed prototypes with use cases and requirements, as I have said
early, and said often.
Cheers
Jack
From: Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@eekim.com>
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jack Park wrote:
>
> > I believe it is a mistake to assume, at this time, that the "waterfall"
> > methodology is dead for the OHS/DKR project. Extreme programming
involves
> > the equivalent of a Darwinian hack and slash approach, one that I do not
> > favor in a project that is as complex and potentially important as this
one.
>
> The waterfall methodology does one thing very nicely: it outlines the
> steps required for developing software. What it does not do is take into
> account truly iterative development or properly model the process of
> software creation. Many methodologies start with the waterfall process
> with modifications to address these problems.
>
> I don't want to get into a methodology war, and I'm not advocating total
> conformance to the extreme programming methodology. Extreme programming
> requires pair programming, building test modules before code, etc., things
> that are either not feasible or not applicable to our project.
>
> Nor am I advocating a "hack and slash" approach, with total disregard to
> design, requirements management, testing, etc. What I'd like to see are:
>
> - Emphasis on building prototypes.
> - Small sets of prioritized requirements per release.
> - Aggressive scheduling -- releasing early and often.
>
> I think all of these things are beneficial for open source software
> development in general, and especially for what we are trying to achieve.
>
> -Eugene
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