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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall (14 Feb 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0130676152
ISBN-13: 978-0130676153
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.8 x 1.8 cm

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Feature Driven Development (FDD), created by Peter Coad and Jeff de Luca, combines the compelling advantages of agile methodologies with model-driven techniques that scale to the largest teams and projects. This book demonstrates FDD at work in real-world projects, giving project leaders all the information they need to successfully apply it in their own organizations. The authors begin by introducing FDD's goals and rationale, and the compelling advantages of its model-driven, short-iteration approach to software development. You'll discover which types of projects FDD is best suited for; and understand FDD's roles, artifacts, goals, and timelines. The book includes practical, hands-on coverage of all five key FDD activities: developing an overall model, building a feature list, "plan by feature," "design by feature," and "build by feature." The book also offers specific guidance on adapting FDD to many different types of projects.

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Combine the speed and flexibility of agile methods with enterprise-class scalability!
Hands-on coverage of the entire project lifecycle
Modeling, feature lists, planning, design, and software construction
Adapt Feature-Driven Development to your own organization and projects

The first practical, start-to-finish guide to implementing Feature-Driven Development!

Feature-Driven Development (FDD), created by Peter Coad and Jeff De Luca, combines the key advantages of agile methodologies with model-driven techniques that scale to the largest teams and projects. This book demonstrates FDD at work in real-world projects and provides project leaders with all the information they need to successfully apply it in their own organizations.

Stephen R. Palmer and John M. Felsing show how applying FDD can help solve problems that neither traditional nor agile methodologies can address. They help you identify the projects that are best suited for FDD, and then walk you step by step through the entire FDD development process.

Coverage includes:

Understanding FDD's model-driven, short-iteration approach to software development
FDD's roles, artifacts, goals, and timelines
Creating overall models that provide a solid foundation and structure for effective development
Formalizing the features list: Completing, leveling, clustering, and prioritizing features
Plan by feature: Establishing class owners, feature-set owners, and rough development plans
Design by feature: Domain walkthroughs, design, and inspection
Build by feature: Coding, ongoing inspection, testing, and promotion
Tracking and reporting progress to technical leads, project managers, sponsors, and upper management
Applying FDD to user interface and external system interfaces
Adapting FDD to your projects—and your business and technical environment

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5.0 out of 5 stars Packed with practical advice on Software Development Process, 2 May 2002

By	philip.bradley@blueboot.com (Singapore) - See all my reviews

Feature Driven Development is a lightweight iterative software development process promoted by TogetherSoft that occupies the middle ground between heavyweight, high ceremony processes like RUP and lightweight programming-focused processes such as Extreme Programming.

This book is packed with good advice for developers and those involved in managing software development, and is clearly written by people with real world experience. The authors do a good job of explaining the issues in software development and how FDD helps address them.

The book is highly readable and should be accessible to those who currently have a limited understanding of formal software development processes. One of the themes carried through the book is an ongoing dialogue between the two authors and several other persons, including the project manager of a software project for a car dealership that is worked through in the book. At first I found this dialogue distracting, I guess because they were initially dealing with material I am already familiar with, but by the end of the book, I looked forward to these sections, and felt they gave the book an overall coherence.

FDD is most radical, in its approach to management (reporting), by dispensing with Gannt charts and estimates of task completeness (most people are aware of the 90% complete, 90% of the time, syndrome), replacing them with measuring features complete (as in 100% complete!) as a percentage of all features to be built. I am familiar with why Gannt charts and Microsoft Project style planning doesn't work for software projects, but the book would have benefited from a more detailed discussion of what will be the hardest part of FDD for many to accept. The book's only real fault is several digressions into software quality and online help, that it was hard to see the relevance of.

I recommend this book to people, including managers, who want to understand why we need software development processes and the issues involved in selecting one. The book, naturally enough, points out the issues with widely used processes such as RUP - too heavyweight, and XP - questionable scalability, and these criticisms are IMO largely valid. The book explains in a straightforward way, how FDD works and how it satisfies all the main requirements of a development process, especially scalability, manageability and getting the domain model (shape) right as early as possible, minimizing the need to refactor later.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good book on an important software development methodology, 27 Oct 2009

By	Georgios Kakarontzas (Greece) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

An excellent book overall. It covers an important agile methodology for software development: Feature Driven Development (FDD).
The first part of the book serves as an overview of FDD. It comprises six chapters including an excellent chapter on measurement of progress with FDD. The second part of the book describes in detail each of the five FDD processes and it can serve as a reference guide when applying the FDD methodology. Each of the five chapters of Part 2 begins with an activity diagram depicting the process steps including a short description of what takes place in this process. A good idea would be for these five pages with the activity diagrams to be placed in a PDF downloadable from the Internet so that readers can use it as a reference. The last part of the book contains additional topics, including a chapter on the technical architecture and a chapter on testing for FDD projects.
The text is concise and to the point. Each paragraph is focused explaining simply and concisely the issues. I particularly liked this simplicity since it makes the book easy to read. So many times technical books divert to the point where the reader is lost and the text is repetitive. At the end readers are left wondering whether they really learned anything new. Thankfully this does not happen with this book. You can easily read it in a few days, which makes it ideal for busy professionals. At the end if someone asks you about FDD, you will be able to tell them. Applying FDD certainly requires more than reading this book, but reading it should be a good start.

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