As there are numerous ways to manage software development, we will only cover some of the most popular ones here.
Development practices and methodologies
Incremental development
As the name suggests, incremental (or iterative) development (ID) is a succession of project segments that build on each other to create the final product. This allows for different aspects of the software to be fleshed out and tested prior to moving to the next step.
This doesn't mean that multiple steps can't be worked on simultaneously, just that a successive step isn't started until the previous one is judged to be complete. This development practice most aligns with traditional project management, where different aspects of the...