Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Development Methodologies

As you all might or might not know I am not a wood worker by trade, wood working is my hobby.  Technical Solution Architecture is my trade, once my hobby but that is a different post!

To that end I have seen many different methodologies but I have not seen the realism portrayed better than by Scott Berkun and his responders to his blog entry on development methodologies.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

I think my least favorite brand is:

EDD (Expert Driven Development)

This is where the development activities and decision are driven from one expert.  This expert overrules all either by force of will or just because he/she is thought of as the expert and all others defer.  The rub comes in, of course, when the expert is not really an expert...