Design Progess...Slipped and AfterThoughts...New Plan

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Lessons Learnt:

If your team don't have full time designers and the design tasks have been entrusted to folks with coding experience but relatively no
design experience, besides internal review few things needs to be done...

Get some design templates from other teams/groups
Own it and sit with Team,Designers,Architects and create a Table of Contents
Assign small sections to be completed in  a day and review at eod
Then setup Review with Architect and others who have designed for review atleast twice in the first week.
Track daily each section  prohgress and press hard for things to be thought...
Engage your best resources to review and when draft is ready start external review by other designers in group or outside.

Internal Plan should be granual to a day's level.
External plan should have IQA/EQA reviews for each deliverable.

Not doing this..saw internal review highlights needs of a template first..lost a  week
Next review highlighted gaps..in analysis needed for design...lost 2 weeks ...

Design Doc should have atleast  clearly address objectives, utilities, decision tree and constraint.
Design decision tree.

Ref:
The Design of Design by Frederick P. Brooks

Also found one interesting read site on DataModelling

http://www.agiledata.org/essays/dataModeling101.html

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