Effective Software Project Management

Chapter 32. The Extreme SDPM Scoping Phase

“Never kill an idea, just deflect it.”

—3M Company saying

Chapter Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will be able to: Explain the Scoping Phase of the Extreme SDPM strategy Conduct the Scoping Phase of the INSPIRE model Conduct the Scoping Phase of the Flexible model

The final strategy variation is to move from the Adaptive SDPM strategy to the Extreme 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 when the Iterative SDPM strategy is used, 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, in most cases the projects that fall into the Extreme SDPM strategy are new systems development projects. Often these will be standalone projects rather than highly integrated into other software systems.