A software development process for small projects - IEEE Software

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E team. This is due to the nature of the customer being not generic or commercial, but rather being very specific stakeholders in the project. The small project often must achieve quality goals that are just as stringent as those of any large project, yet with fewer team members. Finally, the smallproject team might include several people with only part-time participation on the project, such as domain experts, architects, and system test personnel, which requires more coordination and interaction to effectively utilize their skills. A process focuses the efforts of all the team members so that dependencies can be managed more efficiently to achieve the project’s goals. We have adapted portions of several standard process models to provide a software development process for small projects. The process integrates many activities that might appear in separate processes in a larger project. Its goal is to produce the high quality and timely results required for today’s market without imposing a large overhead on a small project.