8.1. Checkpoint: What Happened in Inception?
The inception step of the NextGen POS project may last only one week. The artifacts created should be brief and incomplete, the phase quick, and the investigation light.
It is not the requirements phase of the project, but a short step to determine basic feasibility, risk, and scope, and decide if the project is worth more serious investigation, which occurs in elaboration. Not all activities that could reasonably occur in inception have been covered; this exploration emphasizes requirements-oriented artifacts. Some likely activities and artifacts in inception include:
a short requirements workshop
most actors, goals, and use cases named
most use cases written in brief format; 10-20% of the use cases ...
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