Solid Code: Optimizing the Software Development Life Cycle

Chapter 11. Improving Engineering Processes

If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

— Jack Canfield

Software development is an industry whose landscape has given rise to several different project management processes and methodologies, ranging from the rigidity of waterfall to the iterative nature of Scrum. As previously discussed in Chapter 1, formal software engineering processes emerged in the industry in the 1960s to tame the project cost, time, and quality challenges that plagued the industry. Despite the different incarnations of software engineering processes and methodologies over the past four decades, the simplest goals of achieving a higher quality product ...