Detailing the Scope and Design of Your Initial Release

Following the hard work, you did in Part 1, The Pre-Development Phase, this first chapter in the development phase of your Salesforce project will guide you through key activities and milestones. Next, we cover how you break down the high-level scope you defined in the pre-development phase into user stories. Then, we will cover how to determine an appropriate level of upfront architecture, and what Salesforce architecture artifacts you should create. Finally, we’ll discuss how to understand user story solution design and illustrate your target solution architecture.

The chapter provides best practices for creating user stories to maximize the chance of developing the right solution for your business. We describe which solution design artifacts you should create and maintain throughout the development phase of your Salesforce project, and beyond!

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following main topics:

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