Chapter 2 - Project Life Cycle

Question 1

Type of project life cycle that require scope, schedule, and cost to be determined in detail early in the life of the project, before the work begins to produce the project deliverables

Answer 1

Plan-driven Project, have predictive life cycles (i.e waterfall or traditional life cycle); You may go through the overall project management process throughout the project for small projects but can also need to do it for each phase for large projects

Question 2

Characteristic of a Change-driven Project

Answer 2

1) Have varying levels of early planning for scope, schedule and cost
2) Use iterative, incremental, and adaptive (agile) life cycles

Question 3

Full change driven project life cycle; Involve fixed time and cost, and scope is broadly defined; Involves backlog which is prioritized and adjusted as project progresses

Answer 3

Adaptive (agile) life cycle

Question 4

Involves early planning of high-level scope sufficient to allow for preliminary estimates of time and cost; scope is developed a little more with each iteration

Answer 4

Incremental and Iterative project life cycle

Question 5

Delivers a complete, usable portion of the product for each iteration (e.g delivery functional portions of the website)

Answer 5

Incremental PLC

Question 6

Complete concept is built in successive details to create end result (e.g prototype of the entire website is built)

Answer 6

Iterative PLC