Columnist Bill Walton explores a fundamental misunderstanding of software development that may be costing your company money.

The model’s inherently inflexible and non-iterative form make it worthy of note, but unpopular for most modern software engineering application development environments.

Five years before Brooks’ book, a software development methodology called the Waterfall Model was coined.

Still Chasing Waterfalls But although software developers have largely abandoned the waterfall model, it’s still widely used in other areas of business.

However, the implementation process of such a core system is fraught with challenges, and its success rate has always been a ...

As opposed to Waterfall’s linear approach, the Agile model of development is concurrent; it focuses on continuous iteration throughout the software development process.

Business case development, choice of infrastructure and decisions on deployment and maintenance are all aspects of the software development lifecycle that don't necessarily lend themselves to the ...

The final element of the software development process which relies on strong communication and collaboration is reporting. In Waterfall, reporting covers every aspect of the project and as such is ...

Rapid application development is both a general term used to refer to alternatives to the conventional waterfall model of software development The phases of the rapid application development (RAD ...