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Once an architecture has been defined, it can serve as the basis for incremental development. The first increment can be a skeletal system in which at least some of the infrastructure—how the elements initialize, communicate, share data, access resources, report errors, log activity, and so forth—is present, but much of the system’s application... See more

The fidelity of the system increases as extensions are added, or early versions are replaced by more complete versions of these parts of the software. In some cases, the parts may be low-fidelity versions or prototypes of the final functionality; in other cases, they may be surrogates that consume and produce data at the appropriate rates but do... See more

“One thing you do learn with flying is, when you’re off course a little bit, my instructor always said ‘small adjustments normalize the situation,’ ” Carlisle says. “In basketball, life and basketball coaching, small adjustments and normalizing the situation as much as possible have a lot to do with problem solving.”