As discussed in class, the "waterfall model" is only one of many ways to organize the software development processes that might be used by a particular software development team. This assignments explores the trade-offs in software development process organization by asking you to compare the waterfall model with another software development model of your choosing.

Write a paper discussing software development models including the waterfall model. In your paper, be sure to do the following:

• List at least three other software development models besides the waterfall model.
• Choose one of these alternative software development processes to compare with the waterfall model and explain why that is an interesting model to compare with the waterfall model.
• Summarize your chosen software development model. This summary should be in sufficient detail to support your comparison, below.
• Compare the waterfall model and the software development model that you chose. In your comparison, be sure to describe the following:
  • to what degree the model is rigid or flexible in its implementation,
  • to what degree the model is focused on people or processes,
  • to what degree the model is descriptive or prescriptive,
  • advantages of your chosen model over the waterfall model, and
  • advantages of the waterfall model over your chosen model.

You may cover these points in any order that clearly conveys the information required.

Your comparison paper should be approximately three to five pages in length (roughly 80 characters per line, 50 lines per page). Note that this is a guideline range. Values somewhat outside this range are acceptable. However, if you go much over five pages, I may take off points for being excessively verbose. This page range does not include figures used in your explanations, which are encouraged and may take up any amount of space.

Be sure to cite your sources! It should be clear from your comparison paper where you learned about which aspects of the alternative software development processes.

Turn in an electronic copy of this document as a PDF file by submitting it to the appropriate droxbox in D2L and a paper copy of this document at or prior to the start of the class period on the due date.