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The Software Project Lifecycle

Software projects follow the same lifecycle pattern. What differs from project to project are the amount of time between stages and the release numbers.
  • Embryonic projects consist of presentations, problem statements, solutions, and other forms of optimistic documentation
  • Infant projects have proof of concept code
  • Baby projects have a source code repository and programming guidelines. It might be possible to check out the code, build, and run it. Fat chance.
  • Toddler projects have automated builds and unit tests
  • Adolescent projects have bug tracking systems and prerelease users who are mostly unaware that they are unpaid testers
  • Teenage projects have a release candidate that evolves, much longer than anyone expected, into "1.0"
  • The teenager ages into adulthood via 1.0 bugfix releases and then finally into 2.0 which has documentation that someone was specifically paid to write
  • The project regenerates itself Dr. Who style with fresh new team members and even code bases for hopefully many happy years and release parties
  • But competitors, mergers, buyouts, technology disruption, security risks, old age, and, finally, death eventually win

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