Software Development Philosophies

This is an incomplete list of approaches, styles, or philosophies in software development.

• Agile software development
• Agile Unified Process (AUP)
• Open Unified Process
• Best practice
• Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Constructionist design methodology (CDM)
• Design-driven development (D3)
• Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• Iterative and incremental development
• KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
• MIT approach, see Worse is better
• Open Unified Process
• Quick-and-dirty
• Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Scrum (management)
• Spiral model
• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Unified Process
• Waterfall model
• Worse is better (New Jersey style)
• You Ain't Gonna Need It (YAGNI)

From Wikipedia