Project Lifecycles

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Agile is Not a Silver Bullet

Agile and lean approaches, with either short timeboxes or explicit limiting work in progress and a focus on transparency works for many organizations. In the past few weeks, I’ve received a number of inquiries from all sizes of organizations asking the same kind of question, “How can we go all agile?” Experiment with an Agile […]

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Why Your Senior Managers Like Serial Lifecycles

I gave a talk last night at the Software Quality Group of New England about schedule games. During the talk, I explained how serial lifecycles don’t manage technical, schedule, or cost risk. Serial lifecycles actually increase the duration of the project. And, serial lifecycles don’t offer feedback early enough for the project team. (They only

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What Lifecycle? Selecting the Right Model for Your Project

A cynical senior manager said, “It feels as if I’m stuck between the traditionalists and the agilistas. We can’t use phase-gate anymore, because it’s not ‘agile’ enough. And the last time, when that multisite project tried Scrum, they failed miserably. Isn’t there a right approach to our projects?” A project doesn’t have to use just

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Choose an Appropriate Project Lifecycle

Earlier this week, I was at SPC teaching about project requirements and project management. If you haven’t thought about lifecycles, consider the differences between these kinds of lifecycles: Linear: Waterfall and waterfall with feedback Iterative: Spiral, where the whole product is up for grabs each time Incremental: Where you add to the product in pieces

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