Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

Managing the Risks of Evolutionary Delivery

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For details on these risks, see Managing the Risks of Evolutionary Prototyping, Managing the Risks of Evolutionary Prototyping.

Here are the risks you should plan for if your version of Evolutionary Delivery leans more toward Evolutionary Prototyping:

• Unrealistic schedule and budget expectations arising from rapid early progress

• Diminished project control

• Feature creep

• Poor user feedback

• Poor product performance

• Unrealistic performance expectations

• Poor design

• Poor maintainability

• Inefficient use of development time by developers

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For details on these risks, see Managing the Risks of Staged Delivery, Managing the Risks of Staged Delivery.

Here are the risks you should watch for if your ...