Managing the Risks of Staged Delivery
The preceding discussion might give you the idea that Staged Delivery works almost every time, but keep this limitation in mind.
Feature creep. The main risk associated with Staged Delivery is the risk of feature creep. When customers begin to use the first release of your product, they are likely to want to change what has been planned for the other releases.
The best way to manage this risk is not to use Staged Delivery if you're uncertain what features need to be developed. Pure Staged Delivery does not provide much flexibility to respond to customer requests. Staged Delivery works best when you have a broad and deep consensus about what should be in the product.
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