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iPhone Native applications, the development process

Mauro Dalu

iphone-app-storeThe development process for custom iPhone Native Apps at Surgeworks from simple tools to coupled apps and websites based projects.

Custom iPhone Native apps development at Surgeworks uses agile methodologies. This means that our proposals are not based on fixed price bids, but on a time and materials basis. The development process is streamlined in a timeline and divided in “sprints” that last a few weeks each.

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Agile development, what is “scrum”?

Mauro Dalu

Scrum is an iterative incremental process of software development commonly used with agile software development. The name comes from a rugby term, which is short for scrummage (like American Football’s scrimmage), and is a way of restarting the game after the ball stops.

This concept transfers well to the scrum attitude, which, as Carl Youngblood once said, one could basically sum up as an acknowledgement that human beings can only focus on their goals in small steps and for short periods of time and need help from one another, ways of visualizing their progress, and constant reassessment to be successful.

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