Activities
Every iteration starts with the identification of business goals and their priorities and ends with a running version of the software system corresponding to the selected goals.
While incremental development of the software system is also done in other software processes, the scope of GDP iteration is extended to include a discussion of business objectives after each iteration as is believed the business objectives themselves mature with the availability of usable implementation.
The core activities are:
- Identification and prioritization of goals (small groups of at most 5 people consisting of stakeholders and/or business analysts, and programmers)
- Vertical distribution of tasks (selected goals are assigned to groups of at most 4 programmers)
- Implementation and testing (implementation-driven tests during implementation, goal-driven tests at the end of each iteration)
These activities can be also divided into six main steps:
- Group business requirements by goals
- Formalize goal-driven system behaviors inside processes
- Monitor advancement in the realization of the goals (optional)
- Assign responsibilities to participants of the processes
- Plug behaviors in the goal-driven architectural backbone and play
- Integrate application constraints of the actors
Read more about this topic: Goal-Driven Software Development Process
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