Software Architect's Handbook

Production planning and production

Once architecture design iterations are complete, and the architecture is ready to move into production, production planning is conducted. Once again, production in the ACDM context refers to using the architecture in implementation.

Given this context, production planning involves planning the design and development of elements, scheduling the work, and assigning tasks to resources. The project management team creates plans for the work, and bases them, in part, on the architecture.

Once the architecture can be moved to production, it can be used by development teams for the detailed design of elements, coding, integration, and testing.