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Software Project Organisation - Organic or Set out?

by Sean Brady · in General Discussion · 04/20/2011 (8:33 am) · 2 replies

Should an application's layout or code progression be organic or thoroughly planned out while being developed? I understand the art of organisation of code while developing an app is important but is it better to just create then later organise for another to view and crit/help? This could be based off personal preference rather than having to follow corporate guidelines and write code in sequence to the code plan step by step with no deviation allowed, I am not sure.... Any idea?
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Torque Owner Richard Hebblewhite
RareBit Interactive
#1
04/20/2011 (9:24 am)
Personally, I've always tried to organise as much as possible (time and priority permitting!) whilst development is in progress. It's also good practise to adhere to a methodology (we use SCRUM).

The main reason is that of risk... if you, or whoever is producing code has to leave the project, then the replacement person might have a job on their hands getting to grips with what's been done before. And that can be a disaster if deadlines are looming.

Goals and technologies might change along the way, but as long as you have an agreed method of practise, things shouldn't be too much of a problem. Of course, all this depends on this size of your team!

Torque Owner Sean Brady
Plasis Games
#2
04/20/2011 (1:13 pm)
Cheers...