The team shall identify the set of features using the knowledge obtained from process #1. This is simple functional
decomposition into subject areas that comes from the partitioning of the domain by the domain experts for their domain
area walkthroughs in process #1. It is decomposed into subject areas that comprise business activities that comprise
business activity steps (features).
Features are granular functions expressed in client-valued terms using this naming template:
<action> <result> <object>
For example, calculate the total of a sale, calculate the total quantity sold by a retail outlet for an item
description Features are granular in accordance with the rule that a feature will take no more than two weeks
to complete, but not so granular as to be at the level of getters and setters. Two weeks is an upper limit;
most
features take less than this time. When a business activity step looks larger than two weeks, the step is broken into
smaller steps that then become features.
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