Chapter 6
Choosing the Right Life Cycle
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.—Nelson Mandela
Key Points in This Chapter
•Some teams within your organization will still follow a traditional life cycle—DAD explicitly recognizes this but does not provide support for this shrinking category of work.
•DAD provides the scaffolding required for choosing between, and then evolving, six solution delivery life cycles (SDLCs) based on either agile or lean strategies.
•Project-based life cycles, even agile and lean ones, go through phases.
•Every life cycle has its advantages and disadvantages; each team needs to pick the one that best reflects their context.
•Common, lightweight, risk-based milestones enable consistent governance; you ...
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