Documenting the Plan

After all the various requirements have been determined and the options thought out and decided on, put these decisions and requirements into a design document. The complexity of the project affects the size of the document and the effort required to create it. The intention is that this design document summarizes the goals and objectives that were gathered in the initial discovery phase and describes how the project’s result will meet them. It should represent a detailed picture of the end state when the new technologies and clients are implemented. The amount of detail can vary, but it should include key design decisions made in the discovery process and collaboration sessions.

The following is a sample table of contents ...

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