Effective Engineering e-Newsletter – 9/11/2003

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eN-030911:

Development Methodology Basics: Management of Development
  By Tom Dennis – President, Effective Engineering [tdennis@effectiveeng.com]


Development Methodology is a framework for, and is essential to, proper product development.  Such methodology covers the appropriate Stages of Development, which include Requirements & Architecture, Build & Test, and Release & Support (see eN-030828 – Development Methodology Basics: Stages of Development).  It also covers the Management of Development, which will be addressed here.  As stated in the previous e-Newsletter, the subject of development methodology is broad, and can be very complex.  This and the previous e-Newsletter simply attempt to cover, very briefly, what many of the elements of a Development Methodology are.

Management of Development:
Many elements of a development effort must be managed if the development is to proceed to a successful conclusion.  While many engineers would like to believe such Management of Development is not really necessary, it is, and without it, bad things can, and likely will, happen.  We will very briefly discuss some of the elements here.  Subsequent e-Newsletters will go into more detail on individual elements.

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