Full Cycle

A.k.a. System Development Life Cycle

There are many philosophies, methodologies and religions of software development that are available. How many times have you heard "Water Fall", "Spiral", "Agile", "SCRUM", "Rapid Development" amongst many others. And how many people have you come across that will religiously preach one method over another. At Tekege we employ a Pragmatic Approach to the "software lifecycle". We are well aware of the advantages, pitfalls and trade off's involved in any given methodology and pick an approach that will both guarantee success and minimize overheads.

Why

The main reason to employ a methodical approach is to write code that has fewer defects and, therefore, ultimately provides shorter delivery times and better value.

As a business person / project manager you don't care about the names of these methodologies - you want to answer the following questions

• Is it possible?
• How long will it take?
• How much will it cost?
• Is the quality going to be good?
• What are the ongoing costs?

All these questions have one goal, which is to ensure a successful product development schedule. Tekege's methods will give you comfort in the knowledge that the best method will be employed for you.

The foundation of all methodologies basically breaks down into the areas of design, implement and maintain. Each method places a different amount of emphasis on these base steps. In the following sections we explain how Tekege implements / understands the main pillars.