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A Survey of System Development Process Models

Abstract

Introduction

Typical Tasks in the Development Process Life Cycle

Process Model/Life-Cycle Variations

Ad-hoc Development

The Waterfall Model

Iterative Development

Prototyping

The Exploratory Model

The Spiral Model

The Reuse Model

Creating and Combining Models

Summary

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Iterative Development

Variations on Iterative Development

A number of Process Models have evolved from the Iterative approach. All of these methods produce some demonstrable software product early on in the process in order to obtain valuable feedback from system users or other members of the project team. Several of these methods are described below.