Hello, everyone!
I want you to know that we started an Yahoo group for the Brazilian FDD community to discuss all things FDD in Portuguese!
To enter the group people must have an Yahoo account.
The link to the group is
http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/gufdd
Hope to see many of you there! :)
Adail Muniz Retamal
Or at least a lot of people still do, according to a recent study. Go read:
"The Demise of the Waterfall Model Is Imminent - and Other Urban Myths"
by Phillip A. Laplante and Colin J. Neill, Penn State University
ACM Queue vol. 1, no. 10 - February 2004
They discuss some interesting myths, like prototyping - or not.
Thoughts? Comments? :)
(PS: I really don't love Raymond either.)
Hi All,
Thought you might be interested in this article on FDD it in PDF format:
Regards,
Grant
Hi All,
I am new to FDD and want to make sure I understand how to build a feature list.
I know some of this has been covered in http://www.featuredrivendevelopment.com/node/view/590
so please exuse the repeat but I'd like to be specific about business systems.
Firstly some observations using a real-world example of an insurance firm we deal with in the
language they use to describe their business:
a) their business is made up of one or more business units
b) we deal with one or more business units (travel insurance, medical insurance)
Hi All,
The tools from Together software look good but if your budget doesnt stretch that far
have a look at www.metamill.com I can thoroughly recommend this
product and a single user license is only $US125 and a full site license is only $US1280.
It does full round-trip engineering UML-Code and Code-UML.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Grant
Take a look at the new artwork link in the site menu at the top of this page for some FDD desktop backgrounds. These are free downloads for you to use.
This may be a bit off-topic for this group, but here goes anyway...
As I mentioned here before, I am in the process of starting a new business based around turning a hobby project of the last few years into a commercial venture. I'm going through the whole process of developing a business plan for three to five years with projections for sales, revenue, routes to market, staff levels, expenses, R&D investment, etc.
This is presented by advisors as a necessary step. How can you be confident the business will succeed, they ask, without a clear picture of the end goal and a good idea of how you are going to get there.
Can't do it. Times out er sumptin.
Does anyone have them that they could forward to me?
Regards.
There has been on-going discussion privately between Jeff, Paul (and others) and I over the issue of how small does FDD scale. In fact, Jim Highsmith in his book quoted Paul questioning this?
In my experience most FDD steps and processes work just fine on smaller projects with smaller numbers of people but a few are problematic. I would like to start this thread to discuss them.
I want to make clear that Paul and Jeff may have solved these problems (or they may not) but that the real problem is that solutions are not written down or communicated in a public way. With the books on FDD there is ambiguity about what to do in smaller projects and that is what causes the problems I have observed.
I have a long history in developing business systems of various sorts. I have worked in organizations and on projects with "heavy" process and some with no process. I have gone through the Yourdon SDLC, the RAD methodologies, and on and on. The Agile methods, particularly FDD, seem to support the work of software development in the real world, the way it has always happened regardless of (and often in spite of) the process we have tried to wrap around it over the years. I have found FDD to be a good match for me, the way I think, and the projects I typically work on. Wonderful! I have found the books and material on the topic to be informative and useful, and generally tailored to busines systems. But....
