Effective Software Project Management

Part Five: Adaptive ESPM

This is your second step into the unknown. All of the conditions that applied in the Iterative approach apply here, but there is more. Even less of the solution is known in this approach. Not only are features missing or vague, but also are many of the functions that drive the solution. It is fair to say that the Adaptive approach handles software development projects where the solution is just not known. It must be learned and discovered through iterations. This is a common situation. Unfortunately not too many software developers realize that, or they do but they proceed with their tried and true approaches anyways. They are a failure on its way to happen. The Adaptive approaches discussed in this part are designed for exactly the situation where the solution is not known but has to be learned.