Software Engineering

2.3 
Summary
The software development framework provides a structured approach to software 
development and project management. Stakeholder involvement throughout the 
development effort is achieved with their representation on the SWE-IPT. The IPPD 
philosophy accounts for the concurrent development of the PDSS processes. These 
PDSS processes must be established in a timely manner to support software product 
deployment and operations. The SBS embraces the IPPD philosophy and establishes 
the accountability for post-development processes within project plans, budgets, and 
schedules. The software development framework involves a series of project reviews 
and audits to provide the project management team and stakeholders an opportunity 
to maintain awareness of the status of the development effort. Project reviews deter-
mine the readiness of the technical effort to proceed to each subsequent development 
stage. Configuration audits are conducted to ensure that the implemented and tested 
software product configuration complies with the functional and physical baselines.
The software development framework provides a basis for discussing the need 
for the software engineering practices encouraged by this book. Because the soft-
ware product takes different representations throughout the development process, 
software engineering principles, practices, and tools must be employed prudently. 
Because of this realization, much care has been given to how the software engineer-
ing tasks are explicitly stated to account for the status of the software product and 
the project within the development framework.

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