title: What essential design artifacts do you produce?
body: <p>In the course of your software development lifecycle, what essential design artifacts do you produce? What makes them essential to your practice?</p>
  
  <p>The project I'm currently on has been in production for 8+ years. This web application has been actively enhanced and maintained over that time. While we have CMMI based policies and processes in place, with portions of our practice being well defined, the design phase has been largely overlooked. Best practices, anyone? </p>