As an operational definition, good requirements are cohesive, complete, consistent, correct, feasible, modifiable, necessary, prioritized, reusable, testable, traceable, verifiable and unambiguous. If requirements aren’t captured to this high standard, rework or project failure is the natural consequence. No one will ever get good requirements that meet this standard by walking into a room and asking […]
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Who’s to Blame for Troubled Projects, IT or the Business?
There is enough empirical evidence to say that poor requirements contribute to the majority of project failures. Look at these study conclusions published over a 13 year period beginning in 1995: Requirements problems have been proven to contribute to 20-25% of all project failures. The average project overran its budget 189% and its schedule by […]
The SDLC Triangle
Have you ever heard of the SDLC triangle? Probably not unless you’ve downloaded my free sample chapter or have read The Ultimate Guide to the SDLC. It’s something I invented to demonstrate the complementary nature of project management methods and the system development life cycle. In terms of importance to a project, the SDLC and […]
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Prefacexiii Acknowledgementsxiv Introduction1 Organizational Change Management and the SDLC10 IT Governance and the SDLC19 The Project Management Method and the SDLC22 Tying It All Together26 What to Expect28 System Development Models29 Waterfall Model31 The Spiral Model39 The V-Model43 German V-Modell 97 and V-Modell XT43 US Vee Model45 The Dual Vee-Model49 Incremental Commitment Model51 Adaptive Software […]
Best of the Best Practices
In Chapter 2 of The Ultimate Guide to the SDLC, 12 historical system development models, both agile and waterfall based, are compared as well as one hybrid and one philosophy. The best practices from each model are extracted and extrapolated into a best of best practices model. None of the Waterfall or Agile models provide […]
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