The criteria of system development methodology choice for the minimization of the time and resources

Julia Smoylovskaya

Julia Smoylovskaya

Due to decreasing of demand on the corporate informational systems becomes an important question the improvement of price-quality relation of the software product. It requires increasing of the quality level in the same time with prime cost decreasing. The aim of the given work is to describe the possibility of resource usage optimization applying different system development methodologies. In the analysis were used waterfall, iteration, spiral, and agile methodologies. The criteria of choice from them are described taking into account necessity of project’s time and cost spending minimization. In the work were analyses risks that can appear at application of different methodologies, and ways of their minimization.
As a result of the performed analysis in the article is proposed to choose methodology not for the company as a whole but for each separate project. In the article are given practical recommendations that can be used in the real projects.

Keywords: System development methodology; software development methodology; time and cost minimization; risk minimization.