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About this Site
Feature Driven Development (FDD) is the name given to my approach to project management. For the longest time, people had asked me to write about how I organise and run software projects. In 1998, I was lucky enough to be invited to lunch with John Gage and I was fascinated by his ideas and thinking. As I described some of the things I was doing he got very animated. He asked "where's your project anthropologist? Who is writing these things down?" From that moment I was inspired to write.
Peter Coad asked me to contribute a chapter on process for his forthcoming color modeling book and so we agreed that FDD would first be written up in that book. I had one month to write the chapter and in the first two weeks, my drafts (in outline form with some body content) spanned all that I do in project management. That is, much of the software development lifecycle and, of course, much of "the project management experience."
It became abundantly clear, that this was a book on its own - and not a small one. The amount of material would completely overwhelm the rest of the color modeling book. So, for the next 2 weeks I essentially deleted material until we ended up with the roughly 20 or so pages that make up chapter 6 of the color modeling book
It's a teaser, and no more, of my approach to software project management. Because I have not written anything more than this, unfortunately and understandably, that thin slice of FDD that appears in chapter 6 has become "all of FDD" to many.
This website is to correct that situation and provide a place for all to discuss FDD, ask questions, learn more about it, and discuss their own experiences and their own FDD-inspired approaches.
The portal for all things FDD.
I welcome submissions from people on things that are FDD-inspired or even things they would claim to be an FDD extension or enhancement. This brings me to rule #1.
Rule #1. I'm not religous about you using FDD. What I am religous about is projects that deliver working software in a timely manner. If you're using some other approach and it's working for you. Great! Keep using it. If it's reliable - then please write about it!
Have fun!
Jeff De Luca
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