Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to create a specification document and a product backlog. We also learned about some practical and logistical tweaks in order to ensure that our produced artifacts are transparent and provide traceability. The transparency of our outputs is a crucial aspect of delivering a successful system. If our stakeholders find it difficult to understand what we are doing and how our system will behave, then we risk losing their confidence in us and our system as well as the communication channels that provide us with requirements and feedback. The specification document goes a long way toward providing everything the stakeholders need to know about our system in a single, visible, and accessible location.

Traceability is also an essential part of our methodology. One of the many benefits of impact mapping is that we can trace a feature all the way to an underlying stakeholder's goal, and vice versa. Our development team knows exactly what the impact...