Why do we need more than 1 Approach?

• In the beginning of Project Management time there was the waterfall SDLC
• Most project management tools were built to work in the Waterfall SDLC
• But technology advances began to move too fast for the waterfall approach

Requirements

Analysis

Design

Code

Test

Roll out

Maintenance

The Waterfall Analogy works in 2 ways:

1) A ordered sequence of events

2) Narrow Start Effort, Wide effort in the middle, narrow ending effort