Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Feature-driven development

The primary unit of work in a Feature-Driven Development (FDD) process is a feature. Those features are the end result of a detailed System Modeling effort, focusing on creating one-to-many domain models in significant detail, mapping out where features live in the system's domain, how (or if) they are expected to interact with each other—the sort of information that should come out of use cases, data structures, flow models, and Interprocess Communication models. Once the overall model is established, a feature list is constructed and prioritized, with a specific view to at least trying to keep the implementation time frame of each feature in the list at a reasonable maximum—two weeks seems to be the typical limit. ...