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Monday, August 6, 2007

Carefree software development

As the software industry evolved (and continues to), it has devised several processes to formalize the software development life cycle. Some popular methodologies meticulously define every step to be followed in the software development lifecycle, failing which, the resulting output is non process compliant and is supposed to be of lesser quality. Clearly, (IMHO) it is an overhead. Of course, there are bigot organizations who invest huge amounts of time, energy and money on this. On the other hand, there are those who are blithely banging away their keyboards and 'puking' code, day-in and day-out. Do not be surprised, if some of the big brands are working this way, full time. This is what I call "Carefree Software Development". So here are a couple of contrived examples, but nevertheless they are close to real-life.

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