Chapter 9. The Linear SDPM Strategy Summary

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

—Aldous Huxley English novelist and critic

Chapter Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Understand risk and how it affects the Linear SDPM strategies

  • Understand scope change and how it affects the Linear SDPM strategies

  • Understand team structure and how it affects the Linear SDPM strategies

  • Know why there is a communications gap built into the Linear SDPM strategy

You’ve now spent the last five chapters exploring the Linear SDPM strategy and, in particular, looking at variations for the Standard Waterfall model and the Rapid Development Waterfall model. In this summary chapter I’ll discuss a few major points regarding both models and draw some conclusions about their further use and adaptation.

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