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Client Communication Managing projects within the constraints of cost, schedule, functionality and quality is the biggest need of managing project successfully today.. Solutions have been developed during the past with important results published already some 15 years ago. Still, in practice not much has changed. The challenge is to find ways to catch the practical essence of solutions and ways to get the developers to use these solutions. Results: typically, projects can be done in 30% shorter time. While software development results were usually delivered late, the delays in other disciplines (like hardware and mechanical development) seemed to be non-existent.
smartData with its years of experience has evolved a method of "incremental Delivery" which uses cycles, where each cycle part of design and implementation is done. This ensures that at the fatal end day of a project we should rather have 80% of the (most important) features 100% done, than 100% of all features 80% done. In the first case, customer has a choice to either put the product on the market or to add some more bells and whistles. In the latter case, the customer has no choice but to wait and grumble. Requirements change is a known risk . Better than ignoring the requirements paradox, use a development process that is designed to cope with it: Evolutionary delivery, uses rapid and frequent feedback by stakeholder response to verify and adjust the requirements to what stakeholders really need the most. Between cycles there is a short time slot where stakeholders input is allowed and requested to reprioritize the list.