The last few posts have been theoretical; this one isn’t. Let’s start a project from scratch, building on the principles of the COILS architecture I proposed in the last post. (If you haven’t read “Building Bridges” and “The Missing Middle” yet, go do that, then we can get started.) Business Requirements The first task for any project is eliciting business requirements from stakeholders. COILS isn’t intended to prescribe a methodology for that part of a project, but it does su...
