July 1996
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
19h 53m
English
Although there are a few similarities, Staged Delivery is not a form of prototyping. Prototyping is exploratory, and Staged Delivery is not. Its goal is to make progress visible or to put useful software into the customers' hands more quickly. Unlike prototyping, you know the end result when you begin the process.
If the Staged Delivery practice provides less flexibility than you need, you can probably use Evolutionary Delivery (Chapter 20) or Evolutionary Prototyping (Chapter 21) instead. If your customers get the stage 1 release and tell you that what you're planning to deliver for stage 2 won't suit them, you'd have to be pigheaded not to change course. If you know the general nature of the ...
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