Design of Design - Chapter 16

Brooks starts this chapter by posing a few questions about how to find a better design model, or if it even matters at all. He then introduces us to the Co-Evolution model.With this model, you incrementally evaluate you problems and your solutions. Then, Brooks introduces another alternative model called the Bazaar model. This model deals with open source and using members in the community to help with your design. However, he points out that the results might not be as polished or debugged. Finally, he gives us the last model of the chapter: Boehm's Spiral model. This model emphasizes prototyping and performing user tests very early in development.