Service- and Component-based Development: Using Select Perspective™ and UML

Solution delivery

The business and technical architecture stages now move to solution delivery. Without the delivery of a solution, the stages that have gone before deliver little or no practical value. Delivery in this context means delivery into and through acceptance testing, with the final rollout of the solution into the operational environment being treated as a discrete workflow. Solution delivery focuses on the creation of the business solution in increments, with each increment realizing a prioritized value-adding group of use cases.

Figure 5.11 shows the major activities of the solution delivery workflow and how a solution architecture is central to all the activities. The solution architecture provides a comprehensive overview of the ...