Software implementation specification

Ask for examples of work. Talk to references. Allow the functional leads to participate in the interview process since both teams will be working together closely for months to come. Change Management.

This could either be an individual or a team — depending on the scope of the project. Having a change manager on the project is not required but might be depending on organizational culture and number of users affected by the implementation.

The role of a change manager for a software project is to increase employee adoption and usage of the software by applying a structured methodology. Incidentally, the plan itself acts as a change manager within the organization during the project. Announce to Organization. With the project team assembled, It is time to announce this endeavor to the organization! This kick-off and announcement to the organization should be held like the opening of the Super Bowl. Get as many employees together as you can, set up a common area, serve food, play music and end it all with a kick-ass motivational speech by the CEO.

Make it special for the organization. Do this and both the project team and employees will be energized to make the project successful.

Send out the functional leads to meet with the business process experts and start identifying all business processes to be included in the software. Work with these experts and other superusers to analyze the processes to see if any improvements can be made to them. Can you modify a step in the process to make it more efficient? Does this process touch other parts of the business? How critical is this process to generating revenue or satisfying customers? Again, keeping it simple, just create the process like so:.

After refining the business processes, it is time for the first software buildout. This is where the functional leads transfer the business requirements to the technical team and the technical team begins the work of programming and configuring the meet the business needs. Keep in mind this first build out should be largely representative of what the company needs to do to keep the business running. With the first buildout of the software completed, it is time to validate if the team is on track with its configuration of the software.

Talk about each business process and how they were transformed to reside within the software. Demonstrate the process in the new software then allow the users to complete the task individually. Be sure to provide a job aid and data sheet for each process to be tested so each user knows where to click and what the expected results are.

Generally, specifications are easy to understand , hard to believe. We are living in the implementation of that specification. Another example was Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

Easy to understand, hard to believe. Once they completed the implementation, it was easy to believe they had it working. Now, if you have done something before, then yes, it is possible to join the specification and implementation. You are not really doing anything new, however. You are just doing the same thing over in a modified way. However, if you want to add anything new to the product, specification is again required. Provides Opportunity for Review with Stakeholders. One purpose of this document is to have transparency between project managers and stakeholders.

Clear Navigation. A clear, concise document structure with navigation is an important reference point for developers. A goal of any development project is to have a framework for testing.

The SRS should address both. Estimates Costs. Importantly, the SRS should be able to estimate costs of development and deployment, as well as operational costs. Identifiable Requirement Smells Similar to code smells , requirements smells are indicators that a requirement could be problematic. Functional Requirements. The function of the SRS is separate from that of the development project itself. The functional requirements of this document to provide a framework for implementation should be obvious throughout the document.

Analysis Model. The analysis model allows you to drill down into the specification of certain requirements. These can be fleshed out with the Analysis Model since it connects functional requirements with the design. Cognitive Model.

This is the model of development that helps developers understand how a system is going to be perceived by others, typically end users. This is also known as a data dictionary. It should include all the data surrounding each entity in addition to organizational flow charts. Guidelines for the specification itself must be robust enough to tell a story of the development project, and flexible enough to allow changes in scope and scale. Overall Description The overall description gives an overview of the requirements and other subsections.

Specific Requirements The purpose of the specific requirements section is to detail all the requirements necessary for development. Watch now. The abstract proof obligations are expressed in standard linear temporal logic. Key components of the framework include an extended Ontology with parametric temporal formulas and functions, and extensive treatment of conflicts among requirements.

The resultant temporal logic assertions, grouped into specifications of aspect implementations, can then be instantiated in terms of the implementation and verification tools. Citation Context Many software applications require co-operative work support, including collaborative editing, group awareness, versioning, messaging and automated notification and coordination agents.

Most approaches hard-code such facilities into applications, with fixed functionality and limited ability to reuse Abstract - Cited by 19 13 self - Add to MetaCart Many software applications require co-operative work support, including collaborative editing, group awareness, versioning, messaging and automated notification and coordination agents.

Most approaches hard-code such facilities into applications, with fixed functionality and limited ability to reuse groupware implementations. We describe our recent work in seamlessly adding such capabilities to component-based applications via a set of collaborative work-supporting plug-in software components.

We describe a variety of applications of this technique, along with descriptions of the novel architecture, user interface adaptation and implementation techniques for the collaborative work-supporting components that we have developed.

We report on our experiences to date with this method of supporting collaborative work enhancement of component-based systems, and discuss the advantages of our approach over conventional techniques. Component-based systems have become increasingly popular approaches to developing complex systems, offering well-formed abstractions, strong potential for reuse, dynamic plug-and-play and sometimes end-user application enhancement. Unfortunately the design, implementation and deployment of component Abstract - Cited by 16 3 self - Add to MetaCart Component-based systems have become increasingly popular approaches to developing complex systems, offering well-formed abstractions, strong potential for reuse, dynamic plug-and-play and sometimes end-user application enhancement.

Unfortunately the design, implementation and deployment of components is very challenging, particularly achieving appropriate division of responsibility among components, designing components and implementing components. We have developed the Aspect-Oriented Component Engineering method to help improve component development by the use of aspects during component specification, design, implementation and deployment.

We describe our recent work extending the UML to facilitate aspect-oriented component design and the use of Enterprise Java Beans to implement these designs.

Ding, Guoliang Ding - In Proc. Validating that software components meet their requirements under a particular deployment scenario is very challenging. We describe a new approach that uses component aspects, describing functional and nonfunctional cross-cutting concerns impacting components, to perform automated deployed component Abstract - Cited by 14 3 self - Add to MetaCart Validating that software components meet their requirements under a particular deployment scenario is very challenging.

We describe a new approach that uses component aspects, describing functional and nonfunctional cross-cutting concerns impacting components, to perform automated deployed component validation.

Aspect information associated with J2EE component implementations is inspected after component deployment by validation agents.

These agents run automated tests to determine if the deployed components meet their aspectdescribed requirements.