Iteration: Inception Iteration [n]
This iteration includes the activities to be performed during an iteration in the Inception Phase. The overriding goal of the inception phase is to achieve concurrence among all stakeholders on the lifecycle objectives for the project. The inception phase is of significance primarily for new development efforts, in which there are significant business and requirements risks which must be addressed before the project can proceed. For projects focused on enhancements to an existing system, the inception phase is more brief, but is still focused on ensuring that the project is both worth doing and possible to do.
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In this depiction of a system development Inception iteration, the business modeling workflow as it impacts this system is assumed to have occurred essentially before development begins, as part of a separately planned project at the enterprise level, which might identify several systems (including this one) for development.

The Analysis and Design workflow differs from the software development plan in the activities that are invoked - Synthesize System Architecture and Define Subsystem Operations - which are performed with the intention of establishing the feasibility of the development, and generating enough information (an embryonic Subsystem Vision and perhaps some preliminary subsystem Use-Cases and preliminary Subsystem Supplementary Requirements) to begin subsystem development.

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