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The are lot of gurus out there in software development management that
tell anybody the right way to make success using a software development
methodology. Of course, they are right. At least, it is "more right"
than no methodology. But this is not the only requirement for succcess in software
development. Our team thinks differently: the point to get jobs done successfully
lays in the efficiency and flexibility of the development team.
The Zaval CE Team has created its own methodology, based upon well-known
management technologies: SEI CMMI, ISO 9000 and XP, well-known development
technologies -- Rational Unified Process -- and the elements of iteration
planning to provide proper balance between formal requirements, software
quality and team efficiency.
The founders of Zaval CE Team have created the Zaval CE Team personal
view for software development process. The basic ideas are:
- At least the part of project documentation must be completed before
appropriate version will be available. The documentation must describe
the project details with information where, when and who will need to
use appropriate code.
- Documentation must provide information about all aspects of products,
including examples, installation notes and project overview information.
The references and "man" pages cannot be treated as proper
documentation.
- The project plan and known bugs are required to be written before
project publishing.
- The project must be tested first inside Zaval CE Team. As ISO 9000
describes the developers cannot test its own code at all. Other Zaval
CE Team members can be recruited to perform these tests. All contacts
are free and are based upon bidirectional agreements.
- Source code is strongly recommended to be verified against Zaval CE
coding rules: such as code comments, code style, class and method design.
- The system architecture overview, test protocols, IT specification
and other development information is recommended to be published with
source code and required parts of documentation.
- Competitive analysis or equal information is strongly recommended
to be published.
- Tutorial and API online is recommended to be published as other non-critical
information about product.
Points described as 'must' contains hard requirements to the Zaval
CE Software. In fact, these points are required to distinguish our projects
from 'piles of software junk'. The projects without documentation commonly
have no application point to users, even if they are high-tech profies.
We know it, we had enough of it, and we going to do it differently.
Points marked as 'strongly recommended' can be completed after
the first version has been released for general-public download. But these
points need to be completed anyway. Formal methodology requires a huge
pile of paper; but, we do reasonable amount of documentation, making things
easier for you.
Points marked as 'recommended' can be completed, if possible. These
points are efficient for promotion the software, for example. These could
be used to fork other projects based upon Zaval CE Team code base (this
base is provided under terms of GPL license). Recommended information
can be used by other commercial or non-commercal groups and individual
users to use, extend and modify Zaval CE Team software at user's own risk,
and to book change requests and urgent bug fixes via commercal basis to
the Zaval CE Team.
For more information about our internal processes, please contact the
Zaval CE Team for Process
and Methodology information in a free form.
Process and Methodolgy Dept.
Zaval CE Group
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