At the Initial Operational Capability Milestone, the product is ready to be
handed over to the Transition Team. All functionality has been developed and
all alpha testing (if any) has been completed. In addition to the software,
a user manual has been developed, and there is a description of the current
release.
Evaluation Criteria
The evaluation criteria for the construction phase involve the answers to these
questions:
Is this product release stable and mature enough to be deployed in the user
community?
Are all the stakeholders ready for the transition into the user community?
Are actual resource expenditures versus planned still acceptable?
Transition may have to be postponed by one release if the project fails to
reach this milestone.
Artifacts
Essential Artifacts (in order
of importance)
State at milestone
"The System"
The executable system itself, ready to begin
"beta" testing.
Implementation
Model (and all constituent artifacts, including Components)
Expanded from that created during the elaboration
phase; all components created by the end of the construction phase.
Iteration
Plan
Iteration plan for the transition phase completed
and reviewed.
Design
Model (and all constituent artifacts)
Updated with new design elements identified
during the completion of all requirements.
Optional Artifacts
State at milestone
Supplementary
Specifications
Updated with new requirements (if any) discovered
during the construction phase.
Use-Case
Model (Actors, Use
Cases)
Updated with new use cases (if any) discovered
during the construction phase.
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