Objectives of the Construction Phase

Construction is really about cost-efficient development of a complete product ”an operational version of your system ”that can be deployed in the user community. This translates into the following objectives:

1. Minimize development costs and achieve some degree of parallelism in the work of the development teams . Optimize resources and avoid unnecessary scrap and rework . Even smaller projects generally have components that can be developed independently of one another, allowing for natural parallelism between developers or teams of developers (resources permitting).

2. Iteratively develop a complete product that is ready to transition to its user community. Develop the first operational version of the system (beta release) by describing the remaining use cases and other requirements, filling in the design details, completing the implementation, and testing the software. Determine whether the software, the sites, and the users are all ready for the application to be deployed.