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Part 3

Incremental Lifecycles

What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context?

So far, we’ve discussed the lever of canceling a project at any time with the serial lifecycles in Part 1.

Serial Lifecycles

That’s assuming you replan and/or cancel.

We added another lever of looking for more feedback with iterating over the requirements in the iterative lifecycles in Part 2:

Iterative Lifecycles

Teams have another lever. They can release increments of value. That’s what the incremental lifecycles offer.

Notice that the serial and iterative approaches all assume one delivery at the end of the project. The incremental approaches offer multiple deliveries throughout the project.

And, because these lifecycles offer deliveries, you have the option of…