The purpose of this discipline is to:

• Transform the requirements into a design of the system-to-be
• Adapt the design to match the implementation environment
• Build the system incrementally
• Verify that the technical units used to build the system work as specified

With each iteration, the tasks in this discipline will evolve an ever more capable and ever more stable Build.

When working on the system, the Developer will both use and be constrained by the architecture.

This discipline is related to the other disciplines in the following ways:

• The Requirements discipline defines what will be designed and implemented.
• The Architecture discipline organizes and constrains the design and implementation.
• The Test discipline validates that system built meets the requirements.
• The Configuration and change management discipline provides the mechanisms to manage changes to the system built.
• The Project Management discipline plans what functionality will be implemented in each iteration.