14.2. Didn't That Take Weeks To Do? No, Not Exactly.

After many chapters of detailed discussion, it must surely seem like the prior modeling would take weeks of effort. Not so. When one is comfortable with the skills of use case writing, domain modeling, and so forth, the duration to do all the actual modeling that has been explored so far is realistically just a few days.

However, that does not mean that only a few days have passed since the start of the project. Many other activities, such as proof-of-concept programming, finding resources (people, software, ...), planning, setting up the environment, and so on, could consume a few weeks of preparation.