Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process, Second Edition

36.5. Iteration Plan: What to Do in the Next Iteration?

The UP is use-case driven, which in part implies that work is organized around use-case completion. That is to say, an iteration is assigned to implement one or more use cases, or scenarios of use cases when the complete use case is too complex to complete in one iteration. And since some requirements are not expressed as use cases, but rather as features, such as logging or pluggable business rules, these too are allocated to one or more iterations (see Figure 36.3).

Figure 36.3. Work allocated to an iteration.

Usually, the first iteration of elaboration is consumed with myriad overhead ...