Some of these points apply to standard and idividual software application too. I do have the advantege of learning that the hard way in Secondary College already.
We had to create 3 seperate one-year spanning projects (last three grades in a five-year school) - the first was an underdesigned mess, in the second one we tested extreme programming (which is IMO a tad overrated, but highly interesting nonetheless) and the last one was an overdesigned madness.
It wasn't the most pleasant experience (as our school worked closely with real world companies there were deadlines to meet), but certainly educational.
