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Effective Software Project Management
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Effective Software Project Management

by Robert K. Wysocki Ph.D.
March 2006
Beginner to intermediate
618 pages
15h 20m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 31. Extreme SDPM Strategy

An extreme project is a complex, self-correcting venture in search of a desired result.

Doug DeCarlo Author and Senior Consultant Cutter Consortium

Chapter Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will:

  • Be able to explain the Extreme SDPM strategy

  • Have a high-level understanding of INSPIRE and the Flexible model

At first glance, you might wonder what the difference is between an Adaptive SDPM strategy and an Extreme SDPM strategy. First and foremost, the difference lies in goal clarity. Adaptive SDPM strategies require a clearly defined goal while the Extreme SDPM strategies do not. That places Extreme SDPM strategies in a research and development mode. Translated into application I would expect to see a number of parallel investigative swim lanes in the early stages of an Extreme SDPM strategy. The number of those parallel swim lanes decreases as the project moves forward. The decrease occurs because several swim lanes are eliminated as feasible directions for goal and solution discovery.

This final SDPM model type applies to those projects whose solution and goal are not known or not clearly defined. Here you are in the world of pure research and development, new product development, and process improvement projects.

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