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Project Management & Agile · Advanced

Feature-Driven Development (FDD)

Agile method organized around designing and building client-valued features.

Definition

Created by Jeff De Luca and Peter Coad, FDD has five activities: develop an overall model, build a features list, plan by feature, design by feature, and build by feature.

Example

Features are expressed as '<action> the <result> <by|for|of|to> a(n) <object>'.

Exam tip

Know FDD's five process steps.

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