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- From: dbsjwb@Edm.Arco.COM
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: New application methodology
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.185716.28333@Arco.COM>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 18:57:16 GMT
- Sender: dbsjwb@Edm.Arco.COM (James Bielak)
- Reply-To: bielak@arco.com
- Organization: ARCO Exploration and Production Technology
- Lines: 44
- Originator: dbsjwb@doofus
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- This is not algorithm stuff, but I thought it pertains enough to
- comp.programming to post here.
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- After witnessing a number of documents describing in (sometimes gory)
- detail the _shoulds_ of the definition/analysis/design/programming/testing/
- acceptance flow-chart ideal, it strikes me that I have never actually
- witnessed the details of such an ideal happen in "real life".
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- As a consequence, what happens (at least in my corner of the world) is
- that many times _nothing_ approaching the suggested documents, reviews,
- etc. actually are produced. I believe that there must be some methodology
- which permits a one-person project a chance of fulfilling all the stated
- method requirements, as well as encouraging a multi-person project to
- fully and adequately state and describe the stages of the project life
- cycle. Thus I turn to your experience for suggestions.
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- What kind of documents do you require (or are required of you) ?
- Who produces them?
- Do you use document templates? What do they look like?
- How detailed are the detailed design specs? How long do they take to
- produce? Who writes them (mgr, pgmr, user-support, security guard) ?
- Do you have code walk-throughs/reviews? Who participates? What do
- you actually do? How long does it take?
- Etc.
-
- What I am searching for is a generalized schema which would encourage
- use for small one-person and huge multi-person projects. Not what
- SHOULD be done, but what actually IS done.
-
- OTOH, has this been discussed before, and where should I look for
- the answers?
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- Email or post... an inquiring mind wants to know.
-
- thanks in advance,
- jwb
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