Question

How is plan driven development different from agile development ?

(a) Outputs are decided through a process of negotiation during the software development process

(b) Specification, design, implementation and testing are interleaved

(c) Iteration occurs within activities

(d) All of the mentioned

I had been asked this question during a job interview.

This key question is from Agile Software Development topic in chapter Software Processes, Models and Agile Software Development of Software Engineering

Answer 1

Right option is (c) Iteration occurs within activities

To explain I would say: A plan-driven approach to software engineering is based around separate development stages with the outputs to be produced at each of these stages planned in advance.