Effective Software Project Management

The Planning Phase of an Adaptive SDPM Strategy

The primary focus of any Iterative, Adaptive, or Extreme SDPM strategy is to discover a complete and acceptable know these features are missing because the current solution just doesn’t feel right to the customer. Working together with the customer, the project team will plan the iterations to discover those missing features. The Adaptive SDPM strategy has but one major purpose: Iterate on the complete solution to add newly discovered functions and features and initiate probative swim lanes to test feasibility of an idea or otherwise attempt to discover otherwise unknown solution characteristics.

Figure 26-1 illustrates the parts of the project management Planning Phase and the Iterative Planning Phase.

Figure 26-1. The Planning Phase for the Adaptive SDPM strategy

The Planning Phase of the Adaptive SDPM strategy occurs in two different phases of the software development life cycle.

• It occurs at the beginning of the project at a high level. The deliverables in this Planning Phase are the parameters that define the overall approach to the project: the cycle length and number of cycles that are executed for the entire project. These are initial estimates and may change as the project progresses.

• The deliverables in the second Planning Phase (during Design) are specific to the next cycle. Much of this planning activity looks like the ...