Radical Project Management

Strategy Ain't Methodology

Project development strategy is about the overall game plan of how you plan to undertake the project. For example, you may be planning to develop the whole product in one hit or alternatively, break up the product into subproducts and develop the subproducts as independently as possible.

The most common misunderstanding about project development strategy is that strategy is often confused with methodology or task lists. As we discuss in Chapter 12, “Analyze Risk,” projects move through a number of development phases, steps, or tasks (often called methodology). In a software development project, we may commence with a phase involving analyzing requirements (a similar phase would be found in developing a new insurance ...