Lifecycles used in software management.

1. Project life cycles models
Prodea Florin, an IV-CTI

2. Waterfall
• traditional method
• for decades
• sequential development model

3. Iterative, Incremental
• build the system incrementally
• gradually adding more features
• allows flexibility in accommodating new
requirements

4. Agile
• fast-paced evolution of the Internet
• a variant of iterative life
• weeks rather than in months

5. Questions before choosing a model:
• How stable are the requirements?
• Who are the end-users of the system?
• Is the time line aggressive or conservative?
• What is the size of the project?
• Where are the project teams located?
• What are the critical resources?

6. • References:
http://www.projectmagazine.com/initiating/43-integration/428-which-life-cycle-is-best-for-your-project-