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Just click the button. (You can always unsubscribe later by editing your account information). Give us an email and a password (you can use the password later to log in and change your preferences). We'll send you a newsletter roughly once a week. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. Stack Overflow. Software development process. In software engineering, a software development methodology (also known as a system development methodology, software development life cycle, software development process, software process) is a division of software development work into distinct phases (or stages) containing activities with the intent of better planning and management.
It is often considered a subset of the systems development life cycle. The methodology may include the pre-definition of specific deliverables and artifacts that are created and completed by a project team to develop or maintain an application.[1] Common methodologies include waterfall, prototyping, iterative and incremental development, spiral development, rapid application development, extreme programming and agile methodology.
Some people consider a life-cycle "model" a more general term for a category of methodologies and a software development "process" a more specific term to refer to a specific process chosen by a specific organization. 1970s.