Specification-Driven Development

Complex processes can add overhead to already busy development schedules. Specification-driven development gives team a flexible framework to implement a mature development process.

• Enterprises who need a tightly integrated ALM solution to insure product quality
• Design teams who want to increase the business value of their product
• Distributed development teams
• Organizations who would like to more closely align business goals with product development
• Executives who would like total visibility over the development process

• Infuse implementation efforts with the knowledge and intellectual power of designers and high level management through the conceptual framework of a feature.
• Integrating business processes with product design, management can achieve more complete visibility and exercise controls over the product development lifecycle.
• Allow two parallel courses of product development: a conceptual product designed by a core team, and an implemented product that can be developed internally or outsourced.

• Knowledge, in the form of design documents, customer requests, detailed functional and behavior maps, and any other collateral to support a feature, provides a platform for expressing the experience and business needs of the product.
• This knowledge is linked with customer requirements and reinterpreted by Product Managers as a Specification
• A specification provides a conceptual platform. This allows for a strong foundation on which an implementation team can build a functional product.
• The concepts represented by specifications lead to a more focused development experience, regardless of methodology used.
• The flexible nature of the implementation components within the solution allows for any development process to be modeled.
• Allow teams to follow their ideal methods, while providing the needed oversight to make sure that the processes work in conjunction with business goals.