Sample Development Process Cheat Sheet

Project Initiation:
• Informal business need/problem discussions.
• Project kickoff.
• Define problem statement (for example, essential use cases or shall statements).

Exploration Phase:
• Explore business domain concepts (develop domain model).
• Develop basic prototypes and storyboard (for user interface applications).
• Define scope (what included/deferred in nest release).
• Define user stories for next release.
• Do informal whiteboarding of architecture and so on.

Planning:
• Develop release plan for next release/version of system.
• Define glossary of common business terms.
• Develop iteration plan for next iteration.
• Define system conventions (naming, code check-in/integration, and more).

Incrementally Build Software in Iterations:
• Develop software in increments using 2-week iterations; use iteration 0 (or cycle, 0) for environment setup and proof of concept.
• Have an iteration planning meeting before each iteration to pick the user the user stories that will be developed in the next iteration.
• User provide acceptance tests as detailed requirements; developer implement these as unit tests.
• Let developers design and develop the system with user available for Q&A, as needed.
• Deploy production-ready code every two weeks after it has passed the user acceptance tests.