Creating a multi-tier client/server application

[Kathryn Van Stone]

Greetings,

I somehow missed some of this thread, but I believe you left a note  
saying that you were not able to do Extreme Programming.

However, based on the description of the size of the project and the  
size of the development team (is there any more than you?) I would  
recommend you consider the following agile techniques:

1. Incremental development
2. Automated testing
3. Continuous integration

I think 1 and 3 are important in giving you a continuously working  
system, along with a working system you can use for feedback during  
the development process. Automated testing would support 1 and 3 and  
keep you from having to do a lot of manual testing.  Wikipedia  
describes most of those terms.

Also think about having acceptance tests that someone besides you can  
verify match the specifications.

Lastly do use the fact that you are (presumably) close to some of  
your customers to use face time for additional communication usually  
needed beyond specs.

I hope this helps. It sounds like a useful project.

Kathy Van Stone
kvs at acm.org