Software Engineering

13.3.4 
Assess software implementation challenges
The software engineering team involves representatives of the software implemen-
tation team to ensure that the structural configuration and assemblages provide a 
context for software implementation. The software implementation representa-
tives must sanction the structural design solution declaring that it may be achieved 
within established implementation plans, resources, and schedule constraints. The 
software implementation team must evaluate the scope of the workload implied by 
the architectural solution. Several factors must be considered to appreciate the soft-
ware implementation workload:
1. 
The skills and experience of the software implementation personnel to design, 
code, test, and integrate the structural elements into a complete software product 
configuration.
2. 
The data manipulation dexterity of the programming language constructs (state-
ments, semantics, evocation, extensibility, etc.) to enable software units to be 
effectively and efficiently designed and coded.
3. 
The appropriateness and suitability of structural specifications to commence 
implementation.
4. 
The availability of project resources (personnel, equipment, facilities, funding, 
schedule, etc.) apportioned to the software implementation tasks.
Software implementation challenges must be resolved prior to the critical design 
review (CDR). The CDR represents a project milestone that signifies the architec-
tural solution is sufficient to begin the software implementation phase of the soft-
ware development project. The software implementation team should endorse the 
architectural solution prior to the conduct of the CDR. Any lingering issues the 

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