"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Shouldn't this be reason enough to opt for an Open Source development
model?
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| In a traditional software development model, the client asks for one
| thing and is delivered something else not to say anything about the
| galloping costs involved as is rightly illustrated by the cartoon below.
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/08/shouldnt-this-be-reason-enough-to-opt.html
I'm not sure open source development in itself is enough to ensure that
the client actually receives what they want. For example the Waterfall
development process is widely regarded as the one most likely to guarantee a
strong disaparity between what the user wants and what the user gets, and
there are absolutely no conflicts in using the Waterfall process in
combination with the open source process.
The way to ensure the customer gets what they want is to involve the
customer in the iterative development process. Talk to the customer to find
out what they want (note that what they ask for is not nescessarily what
they want, as illustrated by the cartoon). Then build the simplest thing
that fufills the customer's requirements. Now show that to the customer. Is
that what they wanted? If so, great. If not, then change it until it is what
they want.
This second process works just as well whether the software is open
source or closed source.
- Oliver
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