SDLC, Phases and task ownership – Inception / Initiation Phase (2)
Continuing from the previous article, we move on to the Inception phase, this phase starts after the Inquiry phase completes. During this phase, the development manager or Project Manager creates the Engineering Requirement Specification (ERS), which describes all technical requirements of the project. This phase ends if the ERS is signed as complete and is informative so that it enables engineers and testers to create the software that can fulfil the customer?s need.
Step:1 Define Customer Requirement
Write the Customer Requirement Document (CRD), a non-technical document which describes the project mostly as use cases
Ownership / Responsibility: Project Manager / Customer / Pre-Sale
Step:2 Customer Acceptance
Review and get acceptance from customer
Ownership / Responsibility: Project Manager / Development Manager /Customer
Step:3 Define Technical Requirement
Write the ERS with all detail about the technical requirements of the project
Ownership / Responsibility: Project Manager / Development Manager
Step:4 Review
Review with the team for clearness / Perhaps discussion with customer for unclear issues
Ownership / Responsibility: Project Manager / Development Manager / Software Engineer / Software Tester
Step:5 Customer Acceptance
Review and get acceptance from customer
Ownership / Responsibility: Project Manager / Development Manager / Customer
Step:6 Update plan
Correct the draft project plan created in previous phase with updated estimation / Inform customer and team / Get customer acceptance
Ownership / Responsibility: Project Manager / Development Manager / Customer
The documents to be produced at the end of this phase are Engineering requirements specifications (ERS), Project Plan.
More in next blog entry…..
October 10, 2007
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Rahul Desai · 
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