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Article: Best practice - Improve your best practice. Proper processes are essential for successful software development, says Martin Fustes.
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- Computing
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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It is small wonder that software development, with its baffling array of approaches, methodologies and tools, can be regarded as something of a black art.
That perception is further augmented by the often chaotic and ad hoc nature of software development: a result, in large part, of the relentless and ever-changing pace of business requirements.
The pace of change has placed tremendous and constant pressure on software development teams to reduce lead times while producing increasingly tailored systems for the business.
And yet, to a large extent, businesses are not that interested in the details of software development.
'All they are ...