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[chrisgixer]

Just wondering. Out of interest. What's your description of development? Doesn't matter what thing your developing. A company, a process, a product, a country. Matters not. How would you describe development that can be applied to.... Anything.

Before posting I'd ask you to be honest. This might mean your worried about looking stupid if your not sure. Please swallow any pride you may have and just post. Straight off the bat. No googling. No reading other posts first to get an idea if your not sure. Post first, read later.

I'm interested in the general perception of what people think development is and how its should work. NOT what the actual correct way/use/process of development is.

Mark Dtm. Please hold off until the end if the thread, you'll give too many clues away.

[Kevin Wood]

The process of taking an idea to a marketable product.

[chrisgixer]

The process of taking an idea to a marketable product.

Ok, but what the basis of it? How do you go about it? ...and how do you aply that to anything. Not just a product. I'm talking real basics.

[05omegav6]

The growth of a concept from inception to perfection

Simple concepts might not need much developing to perfect, more complex things might take a decade and thousands of man hours/cash...

[chrisgixer]

The growth of a concept from inception to perfection

Simple concepts might not need much developing to perfect, more complex things might take a decade and thousands of man hours/cash...

How, how do you do it. Describe developing.

[Kevin Wood]

The growth of a concept from inception to perfection

Simple concepts might not need much developing to perfect, more complex things might take a decade and thousands of man hours/cash...

How, how do you do it. Describe developing.

How long have you got? 

[chrisgixer]

Ok I'm breaking my own rules here and reading others posts first.

Thing is I think I know. So I'm going to hold off and try to guide things the way I want.

I struggle to with eloquence and communicating ideas some times, so bear with me.

[chrisgixer]

The growth of a concept from inception to perfection

Simple concepts might not need much developing to perfect, more complex things might take a decade and thousands of man hours/cash...

How, how do you do it. Describe developing.

How long have you got? 

Depends if my company fails or not.

[chrisgixer]

To my mind its really simple. But then my mind is a bit simple too sometime.

I rekon a paragraph should cover it. ....ish.

[pscocoa]

Development is changing the state of....

needs context though

Housing development
lnternational Developnent
unfortunate development
late development

[TheBoy]

In my naïve world:

Idea > test > improve > test > improve until as good as it can be

If its a money making scheme, keep the test/improve cycles low, and get it to market quick. To quote a senior mgr from my old company when I told him the product quality was poor now (then), the answer was "it doesn't need to be good, just good enough"

[TheBoy]

But be prepared to accept that the idea, or implementation of the idea, is fundamentally flawed...

[chrisgixer]

Development is changing the state of....

needs context though

Housing development
lnternational Developnent
unfortunate development
late development

How? Identify it as best you can.

[TheBoy]

Just wondering. Out of interest. What's your description of development? Doesn't matter what thing your developing. A company, a process, a product, a country. Matters not. How would you describe development that can be applied to.... Anything.

Before posting I'd ask you to be honest. This might mean your worried about looking stupid if your not sure. Please swallow any pride you may have and just post. Straight off the bat. No googling. No reading other posts first to get an idea if your not sure. Post first, read later.

I'm interested in the general perception of what people think development is and how its should work. NOT what the actual correct way/use/process of development is.

Mark Dtm. Please hold off until the end if the thread, you'll give too many clues away.

Being a PM nowadays, he'll rattle on about plans, milestones, quality gates and other PRINCE2 stuff

[chrisgixer]

In my naïve world:

Idea > test > improve > test > improve until as good as it can be

If its a money making scheme, keep the test/improve cycles low, and get it to market quick. To quote a senior mgr from my old company when I told him the product quality was poor now (then), the answer was "it doesn't need to be good, just good enough"

Ok, what if the idea/situation/thing already exists, absolute first step?