How to get out of the Inception Phase

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How to get out of the Inception Phase

• Goals / Deliverables / Work Products
• Vision
• Business Case
• risk assessment, or S.W.O.T. analysis
• Glossary
• data dictionary
• Initial requirements
• S.R.S.
• Use Cases
• Supplementary Specification (non-functional req.)
• High level candidate architecture
• recommendation of what to build or buy or get free

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Out of Inception (continued)

• Prototype
• proof-of-concept explore technical issues
• U.I. prototype of verify vision of functional
  requirements

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Elaboration - beginning

• Goals
• most requirements are discovered documented,
  risks are identified, assessed, and solutions
  proposed
• use cases are described, and about 80 fully
  dressed
• architecture is formulated, and partially
  implemented
• high business value
• high risk
• refine ...
• vision
• business case and SRS
• project plan
• domain and design model

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Elaboration Phase work products

• Work products
• software requirements specification (SRS)
• sign-off document (or bid)
• working initial software implementation