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Do you use this term " Project Inception" ?

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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
The primary goals of the Inception phase are to achieve stakeholder consensus regarding the objectives of the project and to obtain funding. The major activities of the phase include: Define project scope.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Disciplined Agile Delivery has Inception as the name of its startup phase covering all activities required to get a set of teams able to start productively sprinting.

I've also been on some projects where they resembled the movie Inception and I kept thinking I was in a dream within a dream given what I was observing!

Kiron
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Apr 29, 2018 5:28 PM
Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Never really got that movie, I prefer The Matrix any day.
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Bala Sripada Hyderabad, Ap, India
can this be mapped to Acquisition or Initiation phase in Project life cycle?
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Apr 29, 2018 11:24 AM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Disciplined Agile Delivery has Inception as the name of its startup phase covering all activities required to get a set of teams able to start productively sprinting.

I've also been on some projects where they resembled the movie Inception and I kept thinking I was in a dream within a dream given what I was observing!

Kiron
Never really got that movie, I prefer The Matrix any day.
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Anish Abraham Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington Auburn, Wa, United States
I have not used the word "inception", but will try in future projects. Thanks for posting this, Kevin.
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Karan Shah Bangalore, Karnataka, India
I've always used the term 'inception' as a point-in-time phrase -- not one referring to a phase distributed over many days/ weeks.

The inception of the project is when the first project activity takes place. The inception of a phase is when the first task of that project phase is begun.

So, essentially, the generic English meaning instead of a project management terminology.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
We use it. But let me say it depends on the project life cycle you have defined. It was made "popular" with the RUP (Rational Unified Process) process. Just to comment is not about define project scope. Is about to create the business case. Something similar you have into PRINCE2.
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