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DD Form 2630 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2630, Software Description Annotated Outline, August 1992, used to Software Description Annotated Outline. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
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Formats: PDF. Length 4 pages, approximately 183 entries.
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What the form asks for
- Section I - Top-level characteristics (above CSCI level). 1. System requirement volatility. a. Level of definition and understanding of system requirements. Press space bar to mark X in first box if very little, second box if questionable, third box if fairly complete, or fourth box if very complete.
- b. How will overall technology advances during development affect the project? X first box if significant advances, second box if between one and three significant modifications, third box if minor modifications, or fourth box if no changes to system or requirements.
- c. Requirements volatility during development. X first box if no changes, second box if small noncritical changes, third box if frequent noncritical changes, fourth box if occasional moderate changes, fifth box if frequent moderate changes, or sixth box if many large changes.
- Additional comments.
- 2. System integration difficulty. a. Expected level of difficulty of integrating and testing the CSCI's to the element level. X first box if very little integration, no complex interfaces, second box if average degree of system integration/interface complexity, third box if several system interfaces, some complex, or fourth box if complex, time-intensive integration process anticipated.
- Additional comments.
- 3. Use of commercial off-the-shelf software. a. Expected impact of integrating software into the system. X first box if some impacts on the design/development effort, second box if few impacts created by the COTS software packages, or third box if no impacts.
- Additional comments.
- Additional comments.
- 4. Software size estimate of CSCIs. (1) Mode. a. Space.
- (2) Total KSLOC estimate: low.
- Most likely.
- High.
- (3) Percent new SLOC.
- (4) Percent reused SLOC.
- (5) Percent modified SLOC.
- (6) Programming languaged used.
- (7) Basis of size estimate (analogy, function points, other).
- (8) Reuse library percent.
- (1) Mode. b. Air.
- (2) Total KSLOC estimate: low.
- Most likely.
- High.
- (3) Percent new SLOC.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2630?
- DD Form 2630, Software Description Annotated Outline, August 1992
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?