Lifecycle Models and Project Planning Term Paper

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The strengths of this model are that early iterations of the projects are the least costly and enables the highest risk to be addressed at the least overall cost ensuring upon increase of costs a decrease in risks and secondly that each iteration of the spiral may be custom made to satisfy the needs within the project. Weaknesses in this model are the ambiguous natured milestones, activities performed in parallel are subject to miscommunications and mistaken assumptions and unplanned interdependence is a factor that can create problems.

The "Staged-Delivery" Lifecycle Model

The deliverables in this model are covered in the early stages of the project. In this form of the lifecycle the design is "broken into deliverable stages for detailed design, coding, testing and deployment." The strengths in this model is that it can put useful functionality into the hands of customers earlier than were the project delivered by the project end. The weaknesses of the project are that it does not and will not work well without careful planning at management as well as technical levels.

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In the method of 'staged delivery' the most important factors is making sure that the stages are pertinent for the customer and the accounting of the technical team in relation to all the "dependencies between different components of the system."

Summary & Conclusion

As seen from the descriptions given in this work in writing there are several different progressions through which the processes in the lifecycle process, which are dependent upon the lifecycle, model chosen for the project. Therefore the manager's plan would be based upon the chosen model for the specific project lifecycle and would depend upon the type of project at hand in choosing the lifecycle model for the project......

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