Mixing Agile With Waterfall For Code Quality

jones_supa writes: The 2014 CAST Research on Application Software Health (CRASH) report states that enterprise software built using a mixture of agile and waterfall methods will result in more robust and secure applications than those built using either agile or waterfall methods alone. Data from CAST's Appmarq benchmarking repository was analyzed to discover global trends in the structural quality of business application software. The report explores the impact of factors such as development method, CMMI maturity level, outsourcing, and other practices on software quality characteristics that are based upon good architectural and coding practices. InfoQ interviewed Bill Curtis, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at CAST, about the research done by CAST, structural quality factors, and mixing agile and waterfall methods.

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Marketing or Research?

[yorgo]

Sogeti has been presenting marketing as research for years with their World Quality Report: http://www.sogeti.com/solution.... This smells similar.

none of this does real work

[nimbius]

I dont know what the hell "discover global trends in the structural quality of business application software" means but Agile and Scrum are just excuses for more meetings or magic meetings where we all have to stand instead of sit down in the $4000 worth of new conference chairs we bought. DevOps is just "Synergy" with a new coat of paint. Its a chance for ops to be forced into writing code for projects they arent a part of, and a chance for developers to be forced into firefighting.

Management needs to realize that buzzwords dont write code. Every time you call us into a meeting for a slow-stroke on the latest fancy phrase it disrupts exactly what we're paid to do.