System Development - Build and Fix!

Build and Fix or Ad-Hoc development is a very simple System Development Life Cycle methodology. If you can even call it a methodology.

The Build and Fix system has no real system. There is no structured methodology for this process, there is no project specifications built and there is no set design. There is no real goal of this process other than to satisfy cutomer needs, however without a set plan this process is one of the least used and least effective software development methodologies.

The basic principle behind the Build and Fix process is simply that developers write a system and program, then it is brought to the customers (or users), once the system gets feedback from the users then the developing continues. This cycle repeats until the customer is satisifed.

This is not the best methodology to work with on most projects. This can be a very risky methodology to work with and if this process goes poorly it can cost a customer a lot of unneccessary time, money and resources.

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