It's probable, barring the setup of a new team or new business, that most of these processes and policies will have been established well before the start of a project—usually before or during the first project that the team undertook. Most development shops and teams will have discovered the needs that underlie the sorts of solutions presented in this chapter, and will have acted upon them.

With all of these items set and committed to the SCM, the foundations are laid for all of the subsequent iterations' development work. The first real iteration will tackle the basic business object's definition and implementation.