ERP System Development

Abstract

The history of software development, and more specifically the management of software developers, reads like an accumulation of problems, which were hoped to be solved by theorising on and implementing new management styles. Pioneering the movement in the 1970s as an answer to the existing software crisis, Royce introduced one of the first software development models which became widely known as the ‘Waterfall Process’. The Waterfall Process emerged out of the urgency to manage developments of large scale software systems, which cannot be done by following a two phase approach of analysis and coding. Applying the process, it was hoped to increase control over the development process and the developers respectively, and with this, reduce the amount of failed, late and over budget projects.