Industry Best Practices for the Software Development Life Cycle; Final rept

摘要

In the area of software development, there are many different views of what constitutes a best practice. The goal of the project was to identify a set of industry best practice techniques that fit the needs of Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and provide a consistent and robust process for software development. The researchers believe that the Unified Software Development Process represents the closest methodology to an industry standard for software development. The Project Management Professional certification of the Project Management Institute represents best practice in project management. The researchers have suggested the Unified Modeling Language as a representational method for developing software designs. Practical suggestions for the elicitation of software requirements are provided. The complete set of MDT forms was converted to an XML utility system to allow for easy changes and configurations.