CCBA® and CBAP® Certifications Study Guide

Predictive and adaptive approaches

As you know, there are two main types of approaches that exist: predictive and adaptive. The predictive approach to delivery is a more formal approach and hence can cause a rework of tasks and activities already completed when a change is implemented as well as of the activities required to assess the proposed change on the whole.

A lot of requirements elicitation and analysis done in the early phases of a project follow the predictive approach. This means when a change is required during later phases of this type of project, there is often a higher impact on the time, cost, and effort required.

An adaptive approach will try and minimize the impact of changes with iterative implementations from an early ...