Development Velocity

Development Velocity is the rate of burndown for a project. Velocity can be expressed, for example, as 30 days for project completion.

For a complete development project starting from zero to a fully documented prototype - the time should be 1 person day per Development Template item, of which there are about 40 for the first page of the Development Template. This does not include Distributive Enterprise or any other assets from the Zachman Framework viewpoints. Thus, it should take 40 days for project completion per module. A typical hardware has 12 modules, therefore the development time should total 480 days per project, or 1.3 human years.

About 1 year of Skunkworks development is a reasonable number - and of course that number depends on product quality. Perhaps it could be said that it takes 1.3 years for a Version 1 or a Minimum Viable Product. Quality can improve indefinitely, even if Viral Replicability Criteria are reached. That does not mean that new features are introduced. In fact, successive iterations may take features out - by the principle of Sufficiency embodied in point 29 of the OSE Specifications.

The important concept to note is that of velocity increase for Development Time Compression. If it takes about 1 year (365 human days) to complete a project, then to compress a development cycle to 1 week would require roughly 50 people to work at the same time.

OSE's goals are to demonstrate optimum Development Time Compression via task parallelization, as in Concurrent Engineering.