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What is scrum ? – A simple (non-technical) definition




Well, for those of you who play rugby, it’s not what you think. In software development, scrum (of as some people like to call it with capital letters, SCRUM) is a relatively newer technique, a part of agile development methodologies. Scrum aims to merge the differences between the different constituents of a software development team [...]



Deployment – Type of Software Engineering Practice




The deployment activity encompasses three actions : delivery, support, and feedback. Because modern software process models are evolutionary in nature, deployment happens not once, but a number of times as software moves towards completion. Each delivery cycle provides the customer and end-users with an operational software increment that provides usable functions and features. Each support [...]



Construction Practice – Type of Software Egineering practice




The construction activity encompasses a set of coding and testing tasks that lead to operational software that is ready for delivery to the customer or end-user. A set of fundamental principles and concepts are applicable to coding and testing. 1. Coding principles : A number of fundamental principles that can be stated are : – [...]



Modeling Practices – Type of Software Engineering Practice




We create models to gain a better understanding of the actual entity to be built. If the entity is a physical thing, we can build a model that is identical in form and shape but smaller in scale. However, when the entity is a software, a model is created that is capable of representing the [...]