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Project Lifecycles: The Agile Practice Guide
Do you know the different types of project lifecycles you can use to manage your project, develop a product, or bring a change about in a company?
The Agile Practice Guide goes into four main project lifecycles: Waterfall, Incremental, Iterative, and Agile. There is also “Hybrid” – a combination, which many companies end up using.
Check out the video for details on them now!
There are Many Different Project Environments
In the video, we’re looking at the different types of project life cycles and when we might need to use them. The reason we’re doing this is because there are many different types of projects, different environments they operate in, and projects are often very different.
We might have different organizational structures – for example it might be PMO controlled or it might be functional manager controlled, it might be just within one team or within many departments. There are different life cycles involved in how to manage those projects, there are different management styles, different sizes, different customer needs and requirements, different products or outputs, and the list really does go on.
You might also have co-located teams or dispersed teams you might be governed by a supportive, controlling or directive project management office, or the functional manager of a team. Your sponsor or customer might want daily reports, weekly reports, or they may just have a completely hands-off approach and want you to do the work and report in once it’s done. You may have more than one customer group receiving the benefit of the project which can really complicate things, and of course the project may be technically simple simple or technically complex.
Now all of these things combine into what we look at as the project having easily definable work or high uncertainty work and that’s the difference where the different life cycles and the ways of managing a project comes into it.
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