Milestone: Initial Operational Capability

At the Initial Operational Capability Milestone, the product is ready to be handed over to the Transition Team. All functionality has been developed and all alpha testing (if any) has been completed. In addition to the software, a user manual has been developed, and there is a description of the current release.

Evaluation Criteria

The evaluation criteria for the construction phase involve the answers to these questions:

Transition may have to be postponed by one release if the project fails to reach this milestone.

Artifacts

Essential Artifacts (in order of importance) State at milestone
"The System" The executable system itself, ready to begin "beta" testing.
Implementation Model (and all constituent artifacts, including Implementation Elements) Expanded from that created during the elaboration phase; all implementation elements created by the end of the construction phase.
Iteration Plan Iteration plan for the transition phase completed and reviewed.
Design Model (and all constituent artifacts) Updated with new design elements identified during the completion of all requirements.
Development Process
The development process, including the development case and any project-specific guidelines and templates, has been refined based on project experience, and is sufficiently defined for the next phase to proceed.

Development Infrastructure
The development environment for transition is in place, including all tools and automation support for the process.

Data Model Updated with all elements needed to support the persistence implementation (e.g. tables, indexes, object-to-relational mappings, etc.)
Optional Artifacts State at milestone
Supplementary Specifications Updated with new requirements (if any) discovered during the construction phase.
Use-Case Model (Actors, Use Cases) Updated with new use cases (if any) discovered during the construction phase.