The Cogentos Method is a simple, practical, easy to use approach to designing Web Applications. This is an area of growing importance particularly as many people in the industry see all future applications becoming web applications.

The cornerstones of the method are a set of core principles that are used as the basis for the design and development of applications. These principles are documented here: Cogentos Core Principles.

The method itself is structured as per the following diagram:

There are 7 steps (listed below with links) in the method. Each step has the following:

• details on what the step involves
• the inputs to the step
• the outputs (or deliverables) from the step
• the techniques used during the step
• the tools used
• the roles involed

The method is a fast-track agile method based on best practice, experience and the principles of agile development. It is not a traditional waterfall method. The main steps are summarsied in the following diagram: