Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Planning the Development Project

A recommended best practice is always to document the goals for the application development project to ensure that the scope of work is clearly defined and there are clear milestones for the development process. Simply writing up a list of bullets of the reason for the project and the success criteria that will prove that the project has been successfully completed can be extremely valuable at a later date.

A simple development project—for example, a workflow for an expense report or the creation of a web part that displays data from a website—might require only a few minutes to summarize. However, a more complex project—for example, a purchase order application development project—can require several days and ...