The Four Development Strategies

To help understand the impact and power of project development strategies, we assume that you have a simple set of system requirements, as shown in Figure 11.2.

Figure 11.2. Sample system requirements

In our example, there is a requirement for four processes, A, B, C, and D. There are four stakeholders, A, B, C, and D. The system processes use two sets of data, Data A and Data B.

There are four basic project development strategies, explained in the following sections.

Monolithic or Waterfall

As shown in Figure 11.3, this strategy involves developing the system or product as a whole with each phase as a stand-alone ...

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