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Part 4

Iterative and Incremental but Not Agile Lifecycles

What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context?

7 min readOct 15, 2020

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Which levers does your team need to manage risk in your project?

Do you need to cancel the project if you can’t finish a phase? You might not have the time. You might not have the ability to do this project. That’s the point of serial lifecycles in Part 1:

Maybe you need feedback from customers. That’s why you might choose an iterative lifecycle in Part 2:

A third option is to release shorter increments of value. That’s why you might select an incremental lifecycle as in Part 3:

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