Introduction to the Team Software Process(SM)

4The Development Strategy

This chapter describes the development strategy and how to produce it. In the launch step, your team agreed on what a successful project would look like and established measurable role and team goals. In the strategy step, you devise a strategy for doing the work, create a conceptual product design, and make a preliminary estimate of the product’s size and development time. If this estimate indicates that the work will take longer than the time you have available, you then revise the strategy until the work fits the available time. Finally, you document the strategy.

The development strategy is produced before you start on project planning. In producing the strategy, you will also produce materials needed in planning. ...