Feature-Driven Development:
Covers the progress tracking built into FDD and the status and progress reporting
opportunities that it makes available.
To steer a project, a manager needs to know the current status of a project
(where am I), the ultimate end of the project (where are we going) and the velocity
of the project (how fast are we moving forward). FDD enables a manager to:
- Define a set of sharp milestones for the development of each feature.
- Assign a percentage weighting of effort to each milestone.
- Add up percentages of milestones complete to calculate the percentage complete for a feature.
- Roll up the percentage complete for all the features in a set, area and project to summarize status.
- Compare with previous results to show progress.
- Collect results regularly to calculate rate of progress.
Some of this chapter was based on an issue of the CoadLetter #70 .