The standard for project management

Figure X3-9. Assessment for Criticality of Product or Service

X3.4.3.3 INCREMENTAL DELIVERY

Can the product or service be built and evaluated in portions? Also, will business or customer representatives be 

available to provide timely feedback on increments delivered? See Figure X3-10.

Figure X3-10. Incremental Delivery Assessment

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X3.5 SUITABILITY ASSESSMENT CHART

Figure X3-11 is the radar chart used for the suitability assessment.

Figure X3-11. Suitability Assessment Radar Chart

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X3.5.1 CASE STUDIES

To illustrate how the radar chart works, here are two examples of using the model to score very different types of 

projects. The first is an example of an online drug store project (see Figure X3-12) and the second (Figure X3-13) is 

an example of a military messaging system. These two case studies illustrate some of the variances seen on projects. 

Central clustering indicates a good fit for agile approaches, peripheral scores indicate predictive approaches might be 

more suitable. Some projects are centered around the middle but then spike out on one or two axes. These projects may 

be best solved with a hybrid approach.