Software Best Practices

Hey everyone here .!

I am interested in some other software development practises, and who of those have stake holders participation.

 Hopefully you can help me around with this one ..... 

i have found this techniques :

    * Waterfall model
    * Spiral model
    * Top-down and bottom-up design
    * Chaos model
    * Evolutionary prototyping
    * Prototyping
    * Unified Process
    * V-model
    * Extreme Programming
    * Agile development

with the two last only having stakeholders participation.

Any help is greatly appreciated ! 

Hello stevoo,

Every method I have heard of spoke of the need of stakeholder participation. Waterfall wants it, Unified Process wants it, Agile wants it. There is a difference between wanting it and getting it. There are agile implementations that are using business analysts rather than stakeholders because the stakeholders will not / can not participate.

FYI, I think Extreme Programming actually is based on the Evolutionary Prototyping model. I am also not sure how you can do the Spiral Model with all it's prototyping without talking to somebody!