What is the life cycle of DSDM project ?

DSDM Project Life-cycle

Phase 1 - The Pre-Project

In the pre-project phase candidate projects are identified, project funding is realised and project commitment is ensured.

Handling these issues at an early stage avoids problems at later stages of the project.

Phase 2 - The Project life-cycle

The process overview in the figure below shows the project life-cycle of this phase of DSDM.

It depicts the 5 stages a project will have to go through to create an IS. The first two stages, the Feasibility Study and Business Study are sequential phases that complement to each other.

After these phases have been concluded, the system is developed iteratively and incrementally in the Functional Model Iteration, Design & Build Iteration and Implementation stages.

The iterative and incremental nature of DSDM will be addressed further in a later section.

Phase 3 - Post-project

The post-project phase ensures the system operating effectively and efficiently.

This is realized by maintenance, enhancements and fixes according to DSDM principles. The maintenance can be viewed as continuing development based on the iterative and incremental nature of DSDM.

Instead of finishing the project in one cycle usually the project can return to the previous phases or stages so that the previous step and the deliverable products can be refined.