Effective Software Project Management

The Launching Phase of an Incremental SDPM Strategy for the Staged Waterfall Model

The Launching Phase of an Incremental SDPM strategy for the Staged Waterfall model deals with all four of the considerations stated previously for the generic Incremental situation.

Handling Scope Change

First, you have to assume that scope change requests are inevitable. No matter how much effort was spent on requirements gathering and documentation, you will face changes. For projects that affect infrastructure only, you may have fewer scope change requests. For those that have an external impact on markets, customers, and competition, many scope change requests are possible. For infrastructure projects, the requirements are generally the result of internal business processes and, hence, are better defined. They tend to be stable in comparison to projects that are externally focused. The externally focused projects are subject to the whims of the market, which are constantly changing. That tells you something about which planning approach you should choose. In other words, infrastructure projects respond well to Linear approaches, whereas externally facing projects should follow an approach that offers more flexibility, that is, Incremental approaches.

Comprehensive Increment Plan

The comprehensive plan schedules all increments. What is to be built in each increment, the resource schedule, and expected completion date of the increment are put in place for all increments. If accommodations have ...