Software Engineering

7.2.3 
The availability of experienced software personnel
The availability of talented, experienced, and trained software professionals is cru-
cial to executing technical plans. Task durations and costs will vary depending on 
the level of expertise embodied by the technical staff. Representatives from the 
software implementation, test and evaluation, and post-development process organi-
zations must be adequately trained to perform the tasks identified in technical plans. 
Additionally, these personnel must be educated concerning the evolving architec-
tural design as it affects their technical duties. Work packages must be established 
and revised to account for the availability of software professionals, their combined 
skill set, and their familiarity with the nature of the software product, development 
methodologies, procedures, and use of automated tools.
The technical and project plans must be revised to accurately reflect the evolving 
software requirements and product architecture. As stakeholder needs and expecta-
tions are translated into software requirements and interface and post-development 
process specifications, these documents and supporting analysis provide a basis for 
refining the scope and effort necessary to perform each development task. Project 
plans and management controls must be aligned to reflect the current, most accu-
rate state of the development project. As the software engineering effort progresses, 
the analysis that leads to design decisions provides a more realistic estimate of the 
scope of each task, resource requirements, skill sets, and level of effort necessary to 
perform each task.