Feature Driven Development

This is a stencil for OmniGraffle on Mac OS X. It contains various versions of the four color archetypes to make drawing color models much easier using OmniGraffle.

Does anyone have any thoughts or guidance on how Information Architecture and User Experience Design fit into Feature Drive Development? IA work flows into requirements gathering and analysis as well as into providing structure for the project's mental model. User Experience is not always a specific user-requirement but is frequently something driven by the project team to benefit the customer (as well as other various internal advantages). I believe that these functions are necessary to completing a successful project, I'm still just not sure how to integrate them into the FDD process.

I wanted to share a few pics and publicly thank Henning Wolf, CEO of akquinet agile GmbH, for an outstanding FDD workshop in Hamburg - June 2007. akquinet agile are wonderful hosts and a great team. Recommended!

Here's one of the modeling teams during a hands-on lab.

Here's some of the attendees at a class dinner at the Hotel Hafen Hamburg right by the river and port.

On day 2, to make more time for Q&A, pizzas were arranged for a shorter lunch right in the workshop room.

Hi,
I am a final year student in bachelors of IT. We have to do an R & D project for which we have chosen FDD.
Our supervisor says
"your design will depend somewhat on the methodology that you adopt and should be incorporated into your research.
Your design and methodology will influence when you test and the sort of testing that is required."

For this we got a design template, even we know what we are supposed to do but how to put that in a design document adhering to FDD?
Waiting for Reply,
Manjot

Does planning per feature each feature should have a seperate flow with its own mile stones (system test/UAT/production)?
If not then how are features devided to cycles\delivery packages?
Thanks!

We have taken the FDD workshop with Jeff Deluca and we are interested in more advanced modeling training as it pertains to the three models used in FDD. Can anyone advise on who/where any such training is given? Thank you, Teresia

What is a methodology and how do methodologies fit into an SDLC?

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Here's an interview I recently did over two iChat sessions with Stefan Roock in Germany.

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it-agile consultant Stefan Roock interviewed Jeff De Luca, who founded Feature Driven Development (FDD) 10 years ago. Jeff talks about the roots of FDD, the character of agile methods and the relationship of FDD to eXtreme Programming (XP) and Scrum.

Jeff argues about agile dogma: “I am not religious about FDD as the one and only one true process, nor am I religious about process and method. What I am religious about is frequent, tangible working results, or reliably delivering working software in a timely manner.”

When coming to the question what method is suitable for what type of project Jeff points out: “I’m saying that the Agile methods are more suited to types of people and organisational cultures than types of project.”

Jeff underlines the importance of a upfront high-level modeling activity: “…there has to be some informational / analytical activity at the start to give us the knowledge to set a baseline that we can track and report against… FDD is the only agile method that gets this part right.”

In contrast with XP, FDD has class ownership. Jeff has a strong opinion about class ownership: “Collective ownership is code for ‘no ownership’. It's not a structure I believe in.”

Read the full interview