Internet-Speed Development - The Phases of Internet-Speed Development - Planning Phase

Activity

Definition (source)

Define Requirements

“Early in the planning phase, the team analyzes and documents requirements in a list or tool. Requirements fall into four broad categories: business requirements, user requirements, operational requirements, and system requirements (those of the solution itself).” (MSF Process model

Trace Requirements to Features

“As the team moves on to design the solution and create the functional specifications, it is important to maintain traceability between requirements and features. Traceability does not have to be on a one to one basis. Maintaining traceability serves as one way to check the correctness of design and to verify that the design meets the goals and requirements of the solution.” (MSF Process model

Define Functional Specification

“The team prepares the functional specification.” (MSF Process model

Create Planning

Estimate Risks

Team creates a risk estimation.

Estimate Costs

Team creates a costs estimation.

Create work plans

Team creates work plans.

Create Schedules

Team creates schedules.

Create Design

Create Use-Case Model

“This begins with a systematic analysis of user profiles

(also called “personas”) which describe various types of users and their job functions (operations staff are users too). Much of this is often done during the envisioning phase. These are broken into a series of usage scenarios, where a particular type of user is attempting to complete a type of activity, such as front desk registration in a hotel or administering user passwords for a system administrator. Finally, each usage scenario is broken into a specific sequence of tasks, known as use cases, which the user performs to complete that activity. This is called “story-boarding.”” (MSF Process model

Create Conceptual Design

Creation of a conceptual design.

Create Logical Design

Creation of a logical design.

Create Physical Design

Creation of a physical design.

Create Architecture

Creation of the architecture for the product.

Concept

Definition (source)

REQUIREMENTS LIST

“Documentation of requirements in a list or tool.” (MSF Process model

RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN

“Document on how the team plans to implement the risk management process within the context of the project.” (MSF Risk Management Discipline )

MASTER PROJECT PLAN

“All plans are synchronized and presented together as the master project plan.” (MSF Process model

WORKPLANS

“A plan or plans for the deliverables that pertain to the role and participates in team planning sessions.” (MSF Process model

COST ESTIMATES

An estimation of the costs of the project.

SCHEDULES

“Time estimates and schedules for Deliverables.” (MSF Process model

MASTER PROJECT SCHEDULE

“The various schedules are then synchronized and integrated into a master project schedule.” (MSF Process model

FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION

“The functional specification describes in detail how each feature is to look and behave. It also describes the architecture and the design for all the features.” (MSF Process model