Setting up for successful delivery

Before we can embark on our development effort, we need to have in place the necessary infrastructure that will help us successfully deliver our system's capabilities.

Creating a staging environment

Software teams tend to use different environments under which they work at different stages of the development life cycle. An environment consists of the hardware, software, and configuration needed to develop and deploy our system. The development team usually works under a development environment, which includes the various tools and configurations needed for software development. When the system is about to be deployed, these tools are no longer required, so the system is deployed to other environments that are much more restricted, so as to emulate the target deployment environment more realistically.

In the context of the methodology presented in this book, we will need a dedicated environment on which to verify our delivered system...