Friday, February 1, 2008

Cake & the Mythical Man-Month

I've taken upon myself the task to put Mr Fred Brook's style of software development:
  1. Planning
  2. Coding
  3. Module Testing
  4. Systems Test
With the time allocated to each process being (1/3,1/6,1/4 & 1/4).
This would appear awkward to most web developers on today owning to the more organic build-test-build method so many of us practice on a daily basis.However , the allocation of more time to planning & only 1/6th of the time spent on Programming shows the importance we should give on getting the Model right at the very beginning.

I shall try this technique out on my latest project (a Cake + Wordpress MU blogging engine).The project will be a 1 month affair and will be based on techniques developed from the Pilot system.
I shall post my progress on thoughts on this technique on a stage-by-stage basis.