Benefits

Including a formal design step in your development process can bring a number of benefits.

Each of these benefits is discussed in greater detail in the following sections:

1. Efficiency
2. Velocity
3. Communication
4. Training
5. Reference
6. Security
7. Auditability and Compliance

There are other ways to achieve each of these benefits, but none besides a formal (but lightweight) design step that seems to achieve them all.