Effective Software Project Management

Chapter 27. The Adaptive SDPM Launching Phase

Great people don’t equal great teams.

—Tom Peters Business writer

Chapter Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will: Understand the complications added to the Launch Phase when using an Adaptive SDPM strategy Know how to launch an Adaptive SDPM strategy for the Adaptive Project Framework model Know how to launch an Adaptive SDPM strategy for the Adaptive Software Development model

All of the Launching Phase discussion for the Linear, Incremental, and Iterative SDPM strategy situations apply to the Adaptive SDPM strategy and will not be repeated here (you can see Parts II, III, and IV earlier in the book for those discussions). Adaptive SDPM strategy projects follow the same procedures as by-the-book projects, except they repeat those procedures several times over the life of the project. Within a single repetition, all of the launching activities that are done in the Linear, Incremental, and Iterative SDPM strategies are done in the Adaptive SDPM strategy. But you have to address some additional considerations. Adaptive SDPM strategies focus on projects whose solution is not known or only partially known. Unlike the Iterative SDPM strategies where features are missing for the current solution, the Adaptive SDPM strategies operate without a known solution. Not only are features missing, but functions are also missing. These missing functions give rise to the Adaptive SDPM strategy. It is a learning and discovery approach ...