The articles in this tutorial series were meant to provide you with a sound footing in software development practices, even if you are new to it and did not have prior experience. They were made simple and fun, and yet prepare you for success in managing and executing software development projects.
Below are a few resources for additional study and guidance. Many of them have further links to help you dig deeper. Read more
Project planning is an essential step that is quite often ignored, or if followed, not followed earnestly enough throughout the project.
If you have done due diligence with your requirements and the consequent functional specification, the first step in project planning is probably already done, for the most part.
We are referring to breaking down the work into small tasks in a structured way.
The philosophy remains the same as for the development of the functional spec… Break complex modules into smaller features and each feature into sub-feature(s) till you have broken them down into tasks that take no longer than 2 days each. Read more
…You may or may not have heard such buzzwords as Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, etc. when discussing the SDLC processes you follow. Irrespective of what anybody says, know that it is not required. Read more
