Assignment

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Using the library and Internet, research information about software development methodologies. Select a development methodology and a development scenario that the methodology would work well for.

• Summarize the scenario you would be dealing with as a software development example.
• Describe the development methodology you selected and why you think it fits well with the scenario.
• Identify the key strengths and weaknesses of the methodology.
• Discuss how you would deal with the potential problems that might arise from the weaknesses in the methodology.

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with a reply of at least 100 words about their primary task response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate's posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates' postings?