March 2006
Beginner to intermediate
618 pages
15h 20m
English
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The Scoping Phase of the Incremental SDPM Strategy for the Staged Delivery Waterfall Model
Figure 11-1 (which is the same as Figure 10-3) illustrates the project management process superimposed on the Staged Delivery Waterfall Model. Note that the project management Scoping Phase includes both the Idea Generation and the Requirements Gathering Phases of the Staged Delivery Waterfall Model.
Figure 11-1. Incremental SDPM strategy for the Staged Delivery Waterfall model
In this section, you will see exactly how those phases integrate to form the Incremental SDPM strategy for the Staged Waterfall Model. The activities that take place in the Scoping Phase of an Incremental SDPM strategy are:
Developing the Project Overview Statement (POS) of the project
Defining the number and duration of each increment
Identifying the functionality that will be released in each increment
Planning to build a deliverables-based Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that supports the release strategy
Assuring the integrity of the dependency structure between deliverables
Allocating management reserve in each increment after the first to accommodate processing and incorporating change requests
These topics are discussed in the subsections that follow.
Developing the Project Overview Statement of the Project
The initial meeting of the customer and the project manager is one where the project ...
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