Project Lionheart: The Epic Conclusion

Mayor van Damme is pleased. We completed the project only a few weeks behind our original schedule despite the constant stream of changes that occurred nearly from the start. We satisfied all the high-priority quality attributes, though there were a few hiccups during load testing before the official public release. Other than that everything went well.

The team strongly feels that the foundation provided by our architecture made it all possible. Our decision to do less architecture design up front worked out fine. The team had prior experience with most of the frameworks and technologies we used. In the beginning, we focused on the areas of greatest risk and worked to build consensus around the architecture. ...

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