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Figure 3
Activity Levels in the Rational Unified Process Methodology [
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By building in repeated trials and feedback, a development process that follows the
spiral model has a greater chance of delivering a satisfactory system. However, there
is also a danger. If engineers believe that they don't have to do a good job because
they can always do another iteration, then there will be many iterations, and the
process will take a very long time to complete.
Extreme Programming is a development methodology that strives for simplicity by
removing formal structure and focusing on best practices.
Figure 3
shows activity levels in the ȒRational Unified Processȓ, a development
process methodology by the inventors of UML. The details are not important, but as
you can see, this is a complex process involving multiple iterations.
Even complex development processes with many iterations have not always met with
success. In 1999, Kent Beck published an influential topic [
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