In this chapter, we learned how we can get started with a project prior to writing code. We focused on the interaction with the business experts, providing them with feedback by illustrating our thinking. We covered the importance of gathering knowledge and how to organize that knowledge so we can leverage it later on in the project to understand the goals of the application we are building.

As we moved forward, we looked into how to identify the core feature set and choose a good starting point to not only provide value to the business early on, but also to help us further understand the business domain. This process is similar to the goals of agile methodologies, trying to cover the core problems early on and provide quick value and feedback to the business.

In the next chapter, we are going to get started setting up the project and covering the important details to get a good grip on managing the process throughout development.