Design It!

Create a Design Plan

Design plans outline a general strategy for how the team will spend their time on architecture. Will we do more analysis up front? Are we expecting change later? When do we start writing code? A good design plan sets expectations and explains these details.

A design plan doesn’t have to be a formal schedule, but you do need to put some thought into it. Here are a few things every design plan should include: Capture your plan in a lightweight document such as an inception deck described.

Stopping conditions for design

Will you time-box up-front design work, or will you reduce risks no matter how long it takes? Will you do minimal up-front design before starting to write code, or do you want more of the architecture laid out? ...