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	Feature Driven Development (FDD) and Agile Modeling
		FDD was first applied on a 15 month, 50-person project for a large Singapore bank in 1997, which was immediately followed by a second, 18-month long 250-person project.
		An FDD project starts by performing the first three steps in the equivalent of the RUP’s Inception phase or XP’s “iteration 0”, the goal being to identify the scope of the effort, the initial architecture, and the initial high-level plan.
		FDD’s practice pertains to coding but does not to modeling, on a FDD project people work together in teams to model, along the lines of AM’s model with others practice, and therefore several people will be working on your shared collection of modeling artifacts.
	www.agilemodeling.com /essays/fdd.htm (1080 words)

	Feature Driven Development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		FDD was initially devised by Jeff De Luca to meet the specific needs of a 15 month, 50 person software development project at a large Singapore bank in 1997.
		FDD is a model-driven short-iteration process that consists of five basic activities.
		FDD Manager is an effort that aims at providing managers with everything they need to track and report software projects that are using the Feature Driven Development software methodology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feature_Driven_Development (3306 words)

	Extending FDD for UI : White Paper : uidesign.net
		FDD offers programmers the job satisfaction of knowing that they got to be "complete" at least once every two week, delivering a client valued piece of code.
		FDD for UI utilizes readily available tools and through the use of statechart modeling, greatly enhances the quality of the deliverables through improved understanding of the application across the whole development team.
		FDD is in use on internet projects across the world, and is helping those project to deliver "frequent, tangible, working results," "on time, on budget, with agreed function".
	www.uidesign.net /2001/papers/fddui.html (5710 words)

	About FDD
		FDD covers a broad range of issues related to the war on terrorism, such as the ideological roots of terrorism, the links between rogue states and terrorists, and the role of democracy-building in fighting terrorism, civil liberties and homeland security.
		FDD is a tax-exempt, non-profit and non-partisan institution.
		FDD is funded by a diverse group of individual philanthropists and foundations.
	www.defenddemocracy.org /about_FDD/about_FDD_show.htm?doc_id=156817&attrib_id=7615 (662 words)

	Foundation for Defense of Democracies
		Guests this week are Cliff May, FDD's president, Dr. Peter Pham, the Africa expert and director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Virginia's James Madison University, and Lawrence J. Haas, Vice President of The Committee on the Present Danger.
		FDD chief operating officer Mark Dubowitz discussed how mass media in the region justifies terrorism and indoctrinates children to hate non-Muslims.
		FDD and the European Foundation for Democracy launched the Center for Liberty in the Middle East (CLIME), a transatlantic initiative to promote democracy and support the work of reformers in the Middle East.
	www.defenddemocracy.org (1098 words)

	The Coad Letter: Process Edition, Issue 118, The Case for Class Ownership, by David J. Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		FDD has chosen to adopt class ownership as a constraint, whilst other methods have chosen to eliminate it by abolishing such a policy and allowing any developer to make the necessary changes in any class.
		In FDD each class is treated as its own component and special care is taken to maintain the architecture and public interface to that class.
		FDD believes that the long term cost of other mechanisms is greater than the cost of introducing the policy constraint of class ownership.
	bdn.borland.com /article/0,1410,31957,00.html (2082 words)

	The Coad Letter: Modeling and Design Edition, Issue 70, Feature Driven Development and Extreme Programming, by Stephen ...
		FDD was first used with a team of 16-20 developers of varying abilities, cultural backgrounds and experience: four chief programmers (CP's), sixteen class owners split into User Interaction (UI), Problem Domain (PD) and Data Management (DM) teams.
		FDD does not define the mechanisms or level of formality for unit testing; it leaves that to the chief programmer to do what is appropriate.
		The main minds behind FDD are Jeff De Luca and Peter Coad with contributions from M.A. Rajashima, Lim Bak Wee, Paul Szego, Jon Kern and Stephen Palmer [Coad].
	bdn.borland.com /article/0,1410,29684,00.html (2369 words)

	Feature Driven Development (FDD)
		FDD was developed by Nebulon's Jeff De Luca over his years of extensive IT and project management experience.
		FDD is model-driven and it uses a breadth, not depth, modelling exercise at the start of a project as a knowledge transfer and requirements analysis activity that makes the rest of the processes work as well as they do.
		FDD subscribes to those four statements and it isn't the same as all other Agile methods.
	www.nebulon.com /fdd (1676 words)

	Advantages of Time Division Duplex (TDD) for Broadband Wireless in Last-Mile Applications
		Using the FDD method, a distinct frequency channel is assigned to both the transmitter and the receiver.
		FDD is typically used in applications that require an equal up- and downlink bandwidth, as all TDM voice applications do.
		Due to the symmetric nature of FDD transmission channels, and the FDD legacy as duplex method of choice for TDM voice applications, FDD transmission channels are always of equal size (50% for UL and 50% for DL).
	www.moonblinkwifi.com /fddvstddwimax.cfm (1714 words)

	Delivering Real Business Value using Feature Driven Development
		FDD lends itself readily to the use of repositories or knowledge bases of information and the publishing and dissemination of that information which ensures high visibility and reporting of results.
		When planning an FDD project the basic rule of thumb is that for every week spent in the up-front design process there will be 3 months of development time required to build the system.
		Since adopting FDD we have had clients compliment us on how well our projects have been run and in particular how we have been able to engage everyone from their organisation in their projects.
	www.methodsandtools.com /archive/FDD4.php (1397 words)

	FDD - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		FDD is an abbreviation for Frightwing Dittohead Droolcase - a term used to describe emtpty-headed troglodite fans of a certain drug addicted thrice-divorced chickenhawk radio screamer.
		FDDs are typically jobless, life-bereft trailer-dwellers who spend their time, inbetween disability checks, scrawling crayon letters about "darkies and joos" to local newspapers.
		As a result, FDD's spend much of their time in a hallucinatory state, imagining that fl helicopters, communists, jews, "mud people" and pink bunnies are persecuting them.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/FDD (464 words)

	The Coad Letter: Process Edition, Issue 118, The Case for Class Ownership, by David J. Anderson
		FDD has chosen to adopt class ownership as a constraint, whilst other methods have chosen to eliminate it by abolishing such a policy and allowing any developer to make the necessary changes in any class.
		In FDD each class is treated as its own component and special care is taken to maintain the architecture and public interface to that class.
		FDD believes that the long term cost of other mechanisms is greater than the cost of introducing the policy constraint of class ownership.
	dn.codegear.com /article/31957 (2093 words)

	Brad Appleton's ACME Blog: FDD - an agile alternative to XP
		FDD is quite agile while still employing of many of the traditional practices that agile skeptics are probably more accustomed to seeing.
		FDD does conduct up-front planning, design and documentation and relies very heavily upon domain modeling.
		FDD also uses feature-teams with chief architects/programmers and traditional code-ownership and code-review (as opposed to pair-programming and refactoring).
	bradapp.blogspot.com /2005/06/fdd-agile-alternative-to-xp.html (395 words)

	International Relations Center \| Profile \| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
		FDD members such as Jacobs have signaled their support of the Israeli vigilante group Kach, while Walid Phares is reported to have long ties to the Lebanese militia group Guardians of the Cedar, which is supportive the hard-line Likud position.
		FDD has created the programs and the connections to the media, universities, and policy community that put it in a strong position to influence the direction of U.S. foreign policy in its three main areas of interest: democracy building, counterterrorism, and Middle East policy.
		FDD also highlights the continuing strength of the neoconservative camp to draw into its programs and agendas policy actors from other political camps that are aligned with the neoconservatives on many issues, especially U.S.-Israel policy.
	www.irc-online.org /content/1475 (2947 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Agile Modeling and Feature-Driven Development \| February 24, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		FDD was first introduced in 1999 via Peter Coad, Eric Lefebvre and Jeff De Luca's book, Java Modeling in Color with UML (Prentice Hall, 1999), a combination of the software process followed by De Luca's company and Coad's concept of features.
		FDD was first applied on a 15-month, 50-person project for a large Singapore bank in 1997, immediately followed by a second, 18-month, 250-person project.
		FDD takes a different approach in that it assigns classes to individual developers, so if a feature requires changes to several classes, the owners of those classes must work together as a feature team to implement it.
	www.ddj.com /dept/architect/184415799 (1176 words)

	SteP 10 Article: Feature Driven Development and Extreme Programming (Site not responding. Last check: )
		FDD was first used with a team of 16-20 developers of varying abilities, cultural backgrounds and experience: four chief programmers (CP's), sixteen class owners split into User Interaction (UI), Problem Domain (PD) and Data Management (DM) teams.
		FDD promotes more formal inspections by feature teams; the level of formality is left to the chief programmer's discretion.
		FDD does not define the mechanisms or level of formality for unit testing; it leaves that to the chief programmer to do what is appropriate.
	www.step-10.com /process/FDDandXP.html (2308 words)

	Delivering Real Business Value using Feature Driven Development
		FDD is an all inclusive methodology in that all the stakeholders in a project get involved in developing the feature list; that way there are no surprises for any of them when the thing is finally built.
		FDD does however require street-smarts to be able to decide where, how and to what extent to adopt and adapt FDD to your particular business.
		FDD was developed in the field; it first came to prominence in 1997 in Singapore on a banking project known as PowerLender where Jeff De Luca was the Project Manager.
	www.methodsandtools.com /archive/FDD.html (4763 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
		Bush's selection of the FDD as a forum was regarded by many observers as a sign that the administration remained firmly under the thrall of neoconservative-inspired foreign policy, despite worsening problems in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
		Numerous FDD principals have been associated with the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neoconservative institute that was one of the leading promoters of the Iraq War and the Bush administration's aggressive security doctrine.
		FDD, “FDD and the Women for a Free Iraq Welcomed a Visiting Delegation of Iraqi Women Leaders,” FDD press release, November 13, 2003, http://www.defenddemocracy.org/research_topics/research_topics_show.htm?doc_id=327776.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1475 (2629 words)

	Ann Arbor FDD FAQs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This work found that footing drain disconnection (FDD) addressed the root cause of the basement backups, which was stormwater entering the sewer system during rain events.
		The backflow prevention (check) valves that are installed on floor drains and other basement facilities as part of the FDD process are able to contain the pressure generated by the surcharged sewers in the basement plumbing.
		The FDD program offers homeowners the opportunity to have the City pay for installation if the work is completed within the schedule of the program.
	www.cdm-mich.com /aa-fdd/faq.htm (2693 words)

	USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID
		After a very entertaining display of USB FDD flashing lights, whirling drives, and an interesting rhythm of spinning technology sounds, my RAID was complete.
		At first I thought it was screwed up, but it just took a while for the various units to meld themsleves into a single super duper kalimazooper floppy drive.
		This is supposed to conotate the punk rock and alternative nature of my wacky USB FDD antics.
	ohlssonvox.8k.com /fdd_raid.htm (966 words)

	UTRA FDD Release 4 Blockset
		Based on the Release 4 3GPP specifications, the 3GPP UTRA FDD Release 4 Blockset enables an engineer to rapidly assemble transmitter channel models and therefore concentrate on the development of proprietary receivers, and in doing so provides a quick and easy way of becoming familiar with the specifications.
		The UTRA FDD Release 4 Blockset provides an invaluable educational tool to aid in familiarisation with the UTRA FDD specifications.
		The UTRA FDD blocks can be used with blocks from other Simulink libraries, such as the DSP and Communications blocksets, so that more complex, proprietary models can be realised.
	www.macltd.com /utra_fddr4.php (395 words)

	FDD Integrates with SAP
		FDD is built on Oracle, Informix or Sybase databases running on all popular UNIX and Windows NT platforms.
		The FDD Connector is the interface between FDD and SAP R/3 that allows the two systems to operate together seamlessly.
		The FDD Connector retrieves the file and indexes it into FDD, where it is archived in an optical server.
	www.feith.com /webpage/SAP_Integration.htm (519 words)

	CommsDesign - Solving FDD Compliance Issues with 3GPP Libraries
		FDD provides a similar operating format for 3G operators and equipment developers (separate bands for transmit and receive operation) while TDD calls for carriers to abandon traditional approaches and use a single 5 MHz channel for transmit and receive.
		But while the FDD format is similar in nature to existing cellular approaches, the complexity of an FDD signal format complying with the 3GPP specifications imposes new performance requirements for linearity and dynamic range of amplifiers and other RF components.
		From the perspective of RF/analog engineers, the task of designing to 3GPP FDD compliance testing becomes much more complicated if they have to construct a specific signal, even before an EVM measurement can be made.
	www.commsdesign.com /design_corner/OEG20021114S0012 (1669 words)

	Timex FDD Interface
		If the right version of the FDD interface isn't used with the computer it was designed, the computer simply crash.
		FDD 3000 is connected to FDD interface trough spiral cable, transfer is half duplex 6 bit (1 bit is STROBE, all bits can be used normal) this gives low transfer rate.
		To use the Timex FDD the ROM in FDD interface must be replaced, because a part of ROM1 is used to reset the Spectrum.
	members.fortunecity.com /johnnyred/interface.html (1077 words)

	FDD & Web Development \| Feature Driven Development
		There is also much more to FDD than just the five processes that have the potential to make a big difference to any software development project (which is an article in it's own right).
		The key to FDD is process one, the key to process one is having a great object modeller and a great project manager.
		But the qualities of FDD are not as important as whether FDD is appropriate to the type of development you do and will help you to achieve what it is you hope to gain from adopting FDD.
	www.featuredrivendevelopment.com /node/550 (2599 words)

	CommsDesign - Developing Flows for 3G FDD Modem Designs
		With that in mind, designers are currently building complex FDD modems that support both voice and data streams.
		Much of the complexity in the FDD modem design lies primarily in the need for these modems to offer a signal-processing-intensive data flow and a significant amount of control-flow functionality.
		Similarly, since 3G FDD systems do not require timing synchronization among BTS systems, the user equipment has to detect and monitor the scrambling code and frame timing of the available BTS during an ongoing session.
	www.commsdesign.com /design_corner/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16504915 (2363 words)

	InfoQ: Feature Driven Development : Still Relevant?
		FDD also has defined activities with explicit entry and exit criteria, so has a higher level of ceremony than many Agile methods.
		He concluded that FDD fills certain process gaps without giving up Agility, summed up by his observation that "FDD is Football-Driven Development (and XP is Rugby)".
		It is worth noting that Appleton recommends FDD as an Agile method suitable for a large projects and companies, especially those striving for CMM/CMMI certification, suggesting that FDD may be worth a look for those in a position to choose or recommend an enterprise development approach.
	www.infoq.com /news/Another_look_at_FDD (632 words)

	Foundation Series: Feature Driven Development (FDD) Explained \| Tyner Blain
		FDD is a process that begins with high level planning to define the scope of the project, which then moves into incremental delivery.
		FDD, by comparison, defines the overall scope of the project at the beginning, but does not define the details.
		When we look at these approaches, we see that FDD tries to combine the best part of a waterfall process (good planning) with the best part of XP (continuous improvement through iteration).
	tynerblain.com /blog/2006/03/27/foundation-series-feature-driven-development-fdd-explained (1206 words)

	Feature-Driven Development
		FDD is a design-oriented agile process developed by Jeff De Luca that follows the belief that a strong design (yet one that allows room for flexibility) will create a process that is better managed and thus more efficient.
		The project is divided into "features," which are small pieces of the project that possess some customer value.
		FDD creates design, code, and code inspection schedules that may seem strangely un-agile, but these schedules lack the depth and mounds of paperwork associated with a system completely specified in the requirements phase, instead relying on people and their roles to address the details as needed.
	agile.csc.ncsu.edu /fdd.html (207 words)

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