SUO: SUOP Topic :> Definition Of Development
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SUOPT :> Development. Note 1
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1. What is development?
2. What is a development?
Nota Bene. I have introduced this topic, for the sake of its
potential deployment in the Procedure discussion, principally
as a logically prior "stepping stone" toward the more special
topic of Stepwise Development, a term whose designations have
been known to appear to different observers, within different
frames of reference, and in benefice of different communities
of interpretation under the protean names of bottom-up method,
top-down method, and no doubt a legion of other epithets, and
then there are those, who bring me to mind the inhabitants of
our more happily moderate realms, who praise it as middle-out.
Variant names are Stepwise Enrichment and Stepwise Refinement.
I plan to turn the general techniques of stepwise development
to the problems of analysis and design that affect the use of
both concepts and procedures, whether in ontological theories,
computational programs, or the organizational programmes that
we use to facilitate our collaborative work. And so now tuit.
Jon Awbrey
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