Planning Smarter: Creating Blueprint-Quality Software Specifications

9.1. About Software Blueprinter

One of the important recommendations made in this book is that you develop a physical, working software blueprint. Without a specialized, automated tool, it can be virtually impossible to efficiently manage blueprint-quality requirements. The Software Blueprinter program was therefore produced for two reasons. First, it was an overriding goal of this book to avoid, as much as possible, making suggestions or giving advice without also offering a realistic means to implement those suggestions. Without providing an actual working program to manage your blueprint, that goal would have been dramatically compromised. Second, the Software Blueprinter takes concepts beyond nebulous and theoretical abstracts to concrete ...