Work Product (Artifact): Software Development Plan

This work product identifies how the product will be developed in terms of time, milestones, deliverable work products, tools, and processes.

Purpose

The purpose of this work product is to specify how the product will be developed, including timelines, deliverables, milestones, tooling, and processes.

Relationships

Roles	Responsible: Project Manager	Modified By: Project Manager
Input To	Mandatory: Create SW Verification Plan Review SW Development Plan	Optional: Create Certification Plan	External: None
Output From	Create SW Development Plan

Main Description

This work product provides a wealth of information about how a specific product will be developed. This work product includes:

Project Schedule
Process definitions and specifications
Work product identification, content, and organization
Tools to be used, including options
Development languages to be used (e.g. C or Ada)
Approaches to development (e.g. use of Fault Tree Diagrams, or UML models)
Other aspects of the development environment (e.g. PC/Windows for development with a VxWorks/PowerPC target)

Properties

Optional
Planned

Key Considerations

This work product is project specific. If nothing else, it will be specialized with its own schedule, specific tools, and work environment even if the process and work product definitions, guidelines, and templates remain the same.

Tailoring

Representation Options	This work product is most often represented as a textual document. An alternative representation is to represent the process and work products in a hyperlinked web form (i.e. a subset of this web site) and adding schedule, tooling, and other development environment information.