Software Engineering

4.6.1 
Technical organization plans
The software engineering plan is the central technical management document that 
guides the software development effort. It focuses on the integrated technical work 
necessary to define and control the software architecture. It should identify the 
organizational roles and responsibilities, integrated product team purpose and com-
position, and phase-specific results and success criteria.

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FIGURE 4.9
Technical and project planning.

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4.6 
Project and technical planning
Each technical organization should prepare its individual work plan, which 
identifies how work assignments will be accomplished. The lead technician respon-
sible for each task and the interaction with other technical organizations that con-
tribute to task execution must be identified. The software implementation plan 
identifies how structural units will be designed, coded, and tested, and the com-
ponent integration strategy will be executed. The software test plan addresses 
how product acceptance testing will be conducted, including the dry-run testing to 
ensure that the software product is ready for formal acceptance testing. Software 
product deficiencies uncovered during dry-run testing should be resolved and 
retested prior to conducting the testing readiness review. The post-development pro-
cess development plans should address the approach to designing, implementing, 
and testing each of the post-development sustainment processes based on the soft-
ware product architecture.