Software Engineering

1.3 
Integrated product and process development
IPPD is an organizational technique that provides a systematic approach to product 
development. IPPD is focused on improving product quality through timely col-
laboration of relevant stakeholders throughout product development to better satisfy 
stakeholder needs. A basic tenant of IPPD is to involve all technical disciplines at 
the beginning of the development process to ensure that requirements are properly 
gathered, understood, and specified. The intent of IPPD is to encourage developers to 
consider all aspects of the product life cycle to ensure that the product architecture is 
resilient to changes in operational and technological conditions. The IPPD philosophy 
ensures that all technical and management organizations are represented by partici-
pating members of the software engineering integrated product team (SWE-IPT).
Requirements are developed initially at the software product level, then succes-
sively at lower levels as the requirements are decomposed and flowed down through-
out the software product architecture. This is different from a traditional software 

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