The Tale of Two Projects Does following ‘best' practices really make a difference?

摘要

It is not often that you have the luxury of comparing two projects that are so closely related yet utilize so many different practices to get to the same goal (to ship a viable product). Both projects used the same development platform, tools, policy, and started and ended at approximately the same time, however the underlying results were quite different. Comparisons of common ‘best' practices like peer reviews, requirements engineering, and configuration management were observed during the life of the projects. The results of these observations will be presented in a paper and presentation as lessons learned.