Chapter 5: Exploring the Most Common Development Models
In this chapter, we will position some of the notions we have discussed so far into a more complete picture. We are going to elaborate on the most common development models. We've already seen the importance of designing proper architectures, how to collect requirements, and how to translate the architectural ideas into code solutions that answer those requirements.
The software development models that we will see in this chapter revolve around all of those aspects (and some more), arranging them in proper and tested ways, to achieve different results or emphasize certain areas.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Learning about Code and Fix
- Glancing at the Waterfall model
- Understanding the Agile methodology
- Introducing Lean software development
- Exploring Scrum
- Learning about other Agile practices
- Understanding DevOps and its siblings
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