Waterfall Versus Agile Essay

Despite its location, Dot’s Donut Shop was about to get famous. Little to very few people know of Hughesville, Nebraska or let alone heard of Dot’s Donut Shop. The little town of 879 people in central Nebraska was soon to be a town known worldwide but not necessarily for a good reason. It was the first day of Tom Johnson’s senior year. He hated being stuck in a small town with nothing but a gas station, and a rundown donut shop so as you imagine he was ready to get out of here and go to…

Epidemiology is the study of health and disease within a population. With the education and research done by epidemiologists, we are able to recognize patterns and causes of diseases in order to control them and/or prevent an epidemic. Epidemiology allows us to understand the different outbreaks that occur and how to prepare for such events. “Epidemiologists quantify health outcomes by using statistics,” (Friis, 2010). Epidemiologists collect data, formulate hypothesis, and use it to plan…

The clouds broke, and light began to shine through the large, curtainless, loft-style windows flanking a four-hundred-square-foot apartment containing only a bed, a faded purple sofa, a birch-coloured dinner table, and a single chair. Hand-me-downs would be the explanation to friends regarding the eclectic range of furniture. The truth was that they were obtained for free through a series of favours to strangers. I sat down and opened a laptop bought off of Craigslist. The operating system was…

At a glance, hypnosis is a fun way to see your friends do ridiculous things that they’d never do in their right mind. But there’s much more to hypnosis than making chicken noises and dancing in front of a crowd of people. By definition, hypnosis “is a trance-like state in which you have heightened focus and concentration” (Mayo). Hypnosis has been proven to be helpful in coping with anxiety or pain that one is experiencing. In this process called hypnotherapy, also known as medical hypnosis, a…

Memory is a process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information. It is the total sum of who we are and what we know. It is also absolutely crucial in everything we do and affects how well we do it. A large variety of studies have already been conducted on memory and show that there are different types of memory. In their study, Luo and Craik (2008) looked at the effects of age on memory and found that aging contributes to increasing difficulty to complete complex memory tasks. There’s a…

What is the internet really doing to our brains? This is the first thing that I asked myself while reading the title. As I 'm sitting here typing on a computer I think to my self, am I getting dumber by the minute? or is this in some way helping me? Nicholas Carr has a very particular argument for Gary Small, who has been studying the effect of digital media to our brains. "The current explosion of digital technology not only is changing the way we live and communicate but is rapidly and…

parcel in software. Agile methodologies have changed the field of Software Development since the introduction of the Agile Manifesto. It adopted by wide number of companies for more effectively develop software and meet customer’s expectations faster and better than with the most of old approach.…

project. In the Sentinel project, a waterfall methodology was first used to implement the project before switching to an agile methodology. A waterfall methodology roughly consists of heavy documentation at first, followed by design, then implementation, testing and integration. This methodology is a traditional way of developing software that still has use for some projects, but fails to keep up with the constant changes of a current software project. An agile methodology consists of having…