Successful projects are designed well, with users' needs firt, and are implemented using a set of rigorous practices.
Some organizations succumb to a shotgun approach, throwing the proverbial mud upon the wall in the hopes of getting it right given sufficient iterations. Others release code multiple times a day, essentially testing code in production. And still others produce a product and "toss it over the wall" to the users, hoping it will satisfy their requirements.
Of course none of these really makes sense or produce consistent, predictable results.
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