Software Development Lifecycle & Methodologies

Successful projects are managed well, right?

To manage a project efficiently, the manager or dev team must examine many software development methodologies to choose the one that will work best for the project at hand.

All methodologies have different strengths and weaknesses and exist for different reasons. Here’s an overview of the most commonly used software development methodologies.

We will look at the most popular ones:

• Waterfall (also known as Traditional)

• Agile methodologies such as Kanban and Scrum

Just FYI, there are many more software development methods, but we will not cover these:

• Crystal Methods

• Dynamic Systems Development Model (DSDM)

• Extreme Programming (XP)

• Feature Driven Development (FDD)

• Joint Application Development (JAD)

• Rapid Application Development (RAD)

• Rational Unified Process (RUP)

• Spiral

Let's dive right in, shall we?