SDLC, Phases and task ownership – Pre-Construction Phase / Design Phase (3)
Continuing the previous two articles:
SDLC, Phases and task ownership – Inquiry / Investigation Phase…(1) and
SDLC, Phases and task ownership – Inception / Initiation Phase (2)
here is the Pre-Construction / Design phase. This phase starts after the inception phase. In general, it can be started when the ERS (Engineering requirement specifications) and the project plan are complete and resources are available. It can also be called as the design phase.
Step 1: Functional Specification
Create the prototype of the project, in most cases the GUI
Ownership / Responsibility: Software Engineer
Step 2: Design
Create the design for the software product
Ownership / Responsibility: Software Engineer
Step 3: Review
Optional step: Send customer for their feedback. Should be executed if the project has high technical level or if there is feeling that the requirements are somewhat not quite clear.
Development team must not follow customer’s technical suggestion if it is not the only solution.
Ownership / Responsibility:· Project Manager/Development Manager, Customer
Step 4: Update plan
Update documents and plan if step 3 was done and there is critical feedback from customer. In this case step 3/4 should be repeated until misunderstood requirements are cleared.
Ownership / Responsibility:· Project Manager/Development Manager, Customer
The documents to be produced at the end of this phase are: Functional Specification (or Prototype), Design Document (DD), updated Project Plan (PP).
More in next blog entry…..
November 1, 2007
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Rahul Desai · 
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