1.4 – Software Requirements, Conceptual and Technical Designs

1.4 – Software Requirements, Conceptual and Technical Designs

 

In a survey from The Standish Group, the most common causes of project failures are related to issues in requirements and design. 

 

Unless you want your projects to fail, take your time to form requirements and create a design. 

 

By breaking down components more and more into further components, each with specific responsibilities, you get down to a level where you can do a detailed design of a particular component, such as, describing how to reinforce the floor.

 

Technical diagrams express how to address specific issues like this. 

Compromises might arise when creating an acceptable solution.

 

 

Components

Components turn into collections of functions, classes or other components. 

These pieces then represent a much simpler problem that the developers can individually implement.