• Bring together parties
• Define the "vision"
• Define the problem domain
• Write it down
• Objectives
• Requirements
• Benchmarks (if appropriate)
• Measures and completion (acceptance) criteria

• Defining the system
• 1. Partitioning the system into individual programs (and documenting)
• 2. Defining and documenting interfaces
• 3. Deciding on and documenting 3rd party libraries
• 4. Deciding on and documenting new libraries and components
• Building user interface prototypes
• 5. Building user interface prototypes for appropriate components
• Doing object-oriented design
• 6. Designing and documenting class hierarchies
• 7. Designing and documenting the individual classes and interfaces
• 1. User-interface classes
• 2. Problem domain classes
• 3. Data management classes

• Bring it all together
• Try it out in systematic test
• Does it meet criteria?
• Yes--Ship and bill
• No--Fix and retest

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