Software Development Improvement

What is SoftwareDevelopmentImprovement?

Many people equate software development to a process, implying SDI = process improvement.

Software development uses many tools, so of course SDI = tool improvement.

You couldn't tell from a lot of my code, but software development is part skill, therefore to some extent SDI = skill improvement.

Computer scientists get their name from the fact that, partly, SDI = science.

But many speak of software engineering, implying SDI = professional discipline.

Some point out that software development is a team activity, implying SDI = social skill improvement.

Kuhn would probably claim that for big advances SDI = paradigm shift.

And of course post modernists and perl programmers would probably argue that SDI = all of the above.

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How are software development improvements shared?

• Teach/show processes
• Write down processes (this is hard)
  • Steps and deliverables - a way to write down a process?
  • Collections of rules - a way to write down a process?
  • Prose - a way to write down a process?
• Share tools
• Write down scientific results
  • Publish in peer reviewed journals
• Teach/show skills
• Write down skills (this is very hard)
  • Patterns - a way to write down skills?
  • Collections of rules - a way to write down skills?
  • Prose - a way to write down skills?
  • Wiki - a way to write down skills?

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Related pages

 IsComputerScience
 ArtCraftSoftScienceHardScience
 ArtCraftEngineeringScience
 WhatRecursEverySoftwareProject
 ProcessImprovementTools
 SoftwareDevelopmentImprovementParadigmShift