Feature Driven Development

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Definition

Feature Driven Development, FDD, is just that.

It is a short-iteration development process that delivers features in logical incremental intervals.

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FDD Activities

• Develop an Overall Model
• Build a Feature List
• Plan by Feature
• Design by Feature
• Build by Feature

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History

FDD was created by Jeff De Luca to meet the specific needs of a 15 month, 50 person software development project at a large bank in Singapore in 1997. There was a second project that was 18 months and 250 persons. He delivered a set of five processes that covered the development of an overall model and the listing, planning, design and building of features.

The development of an overall model process was heavily influenced by Peter Coad´s approach to object modeling. Building a feature list process incorporates Peter Coad's ideas of using a feature list to manage functional requirements and development tasks.

The other three processes and the blending of the processes into a cohesive whole is a result of Jeff De Luca's experience. Since its successful use on the Singapore project there have been several implementations of FDD.

The description of FDD was first introduced in Chapter 6 of the book Java Modeling in Color with UML by Peter Coad, Eric Lefebvre and Jeff De Luca in 1999.

The latest FDD processes can be found on Jeff De Luca´s website under the ´Article´ area. There is also a Community website available at which people can learn more about FDD, questions can be asked, and experiences and the processes itself are discussed.

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Agile Development

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan"

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Links and References

• Software Configuration Management Processes
• Nebulon Feature Driven Development

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