Arno Nel 2.0

Hey, welcome Arno! Where are you in FNB? I'm at Homeloans in Kruis St

I don't use any specific methodology, but I do use a lot of iteration and refactoring. I'm considering adopting Test Driven Development.

Im at bank City. Have been to home loans before to help the guys with Sharepoint. I work for WebWorx.

I think to start we will probably use MSF Agile out of the box with Team System, but was just wondering if there were any 1 developer methodologies.

Personally, I feel that clunking a methodology on 1 developer is a bit of a waste of time. Most methodologies are designed to improve the performance of teams by formalising the interaction between developers. As such, they'd be largely useless overhead in a 1 dev project.

Instead, take stuff that will map nicely to a 1 dev project such as TDD (like Brady suggested). Use a simple Excel spreadsheet to track features/bugs and you're away.

There is no "best" methodology for anything IMHO. Whatever methodology works for you, go with it.

Having said that, I personally follow Agile for any projects I do and employ Scrum if there's a team. For one person, I just have my own toned down Scrum so I keep a backlog of features, do the sprint planning with the customer, and have 2-4 iterations with a release of working software. I also use TDD in building the software so I know I have coverage and testing built in. Of course, with one person doing daily standups is useless but otherwise it fits nicely and keeps me on track with my work.