Project Management, 4th Edition

Project management life-cycle on a page

A lot is made of this life-cycle concept in project management (including in this text).

With life-cycles, there are agreed stages (or phases), a planned order, sequential evolution, checkpoints, approval opportunities and a whole lot more. I admit that there is more to life than project management life-cycles, but once you accept that every project (PMBOIC, PRINCE2®, Agile, etc.) evolves over a period of time from the assessment stage through to the completion (and possible evaluation) stage, it is the project management life-cycle that provides the necessary navigation to get you there.

Humans have life-cycles, economies have life-cycles, political parties have life-cycles, marketing goods and services ...