Effective Software Project Management

Chapter 25. The Adaptive SDPM Scoping Phase

“Invention breeds invention.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist and poet

Chapter Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will be able to: Explain the Scoping Phase of the Adaptive SDPM strategy Conduct the Scoping Phase of the Adaptive Project Framework Conduct the Scoping Phase of the Adaptive Software Development model Understand the role of the WBS in defining Adaptive project iterations Scope the Adaptive plan

The next strategy variation is to move from the Iterative SDPM strategy to the Adaptive SDPM strategy, which is discussed in this part of the book. Adaptive models arise out of the customer’s inability to completely define requirements and obviously the features that accompany them. As is the case with the Iterative SDPM strategy, the customer may not be able to identify some of the features associated with known functionality. To find a complete solution, the customer will have to be more intimately involved throughout the entire project life cycle than has been the case in all previous strategies. With few exceptions, the projects that fall into the Adaptive models are new systems development projects.